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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the … contacts. These results remain robust after applying matching techniques and concentrating on young entrepreneurs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266664
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Who starts with open source? Institutional choice of start-ups in the German ICT sector
Fritsch, Michael; von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2010
between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS …-ups with low human capital endowment or to necessity-motivated entrepreneurs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286478
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The Role of Reciprocation in Social Network Formation, With an Application to Blogging
Gaudeul, Alexia; Giannetti, Caterina - 2014
This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks, that is to what extent initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. Following the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year, we seek to establish whether bloggers are mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184485
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The Role of Reciprocation in Social Network Formation, with an Application to Blogging
Gaudeul, Alexia; Giannetti, Caterina - 2013
This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks. We follow the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year and investigate the extent to which initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. We adapt a standard capital investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168566
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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291817
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
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 … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
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
entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and … entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the well-established psychological theory of vocational behavior, which emphasizes the crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291855
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Creative class and regional growth: empirical evidence from eight European countries
Boschma, Ron A.; Fritsch, Michael - 2007
We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263818
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263837