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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the … parental role model and the decision to become self-employed for less-educated people. For West Germans the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291817
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Religion and entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David B.; Boente, Werner; Tamvada, … - 2007
about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision … paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263844
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012
entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation … effect of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the long-term but a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291811
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291827
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How much of a socialist legacy? The reemergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Rusakova, Alina; … - 2012
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 collapse of the East German state in 1989. It took about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291841
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A physician with a soul of a cook? Entrepreneurial personality across occupations
Sorgner, Alina - 2012
, occupational environment, and the decision to become self-employed. Empirical findings suggest that personality is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291855
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Globalization and the rise of the entrepreneurial economy
Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2007
varieties which corres-pond to the early stage of the product life cycle. Moreover, because entrepreneurs serve as agents that … profit benefit entrepre-neurs and skilled labor. By contrast, factors of production employed in the mature stages of the life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263782
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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula
Terjesen, Siri - 2007
This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the De-velopment of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263796
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Entrepreneurial backgrounds, human capital and start-up success
Baptista, Rui; Karaöz, Murat; Mendonça, Joana - 2007
the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. The subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is also explored … chances, while more general forms of human capital may help inexperienced entrepreneurs overcome the barrier posed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263803
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Serial entrepreneurship: differentiating direct from latent re-entrants
Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - 2007
This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their … those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business ownership immediately upon exiting their first business (direct serial … entrepreneurs are different. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263804