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A short measure of four types of personal optimism: ability, rivalry, chance, and social support (ARCS)
Urbig, Diemo - 2008
Self-efficacy, which can be defined as optimism about one's own ability to exercise required actions, has received a lot of attention in research on entrepreneurs' and managers' decision making. This attention led to the development of corresponding measurement instruments. However, there is no...
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High growth entrepreneurs, public policies and economic growth
Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, S. Jolanda A.; … - 2007
economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …
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