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We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment …
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Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...
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We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment …
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and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
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The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
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This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at the stage of firm formation. We distinguish between different kinds of experience an entrepreneur can possess and find evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm...
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Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
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What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …
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We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced...
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External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our...
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