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In the name of my parents: Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values
Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
Mounting empirical evidence shows that kids of self-employed parents are very likely to become entrepreneurs themselves. These findings are often attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental norms and values. However, many papers in the field are not that explicit about parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323907
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The entrepreneurial culture: guiding principles of the self-employed
Noseleit, Florian - 2008
What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self-employed rate values higher that aim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263877
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The Entrepreneurial Culture: Guiding Principles of the Self-Employed
Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self- employed rate values higher that aim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051049
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In the name of my parents: Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values
Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Mounting empirical evidence shows that kids of self-employed parents are very likely to become entrepreneurs themselves. These findings are often attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental norms and values. However, many papers in the field are not that explicit about parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686909
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Values, food and bags: A study of consumption decisions in a laboratory supermarket
Kasser, Tim; Matthey, Astrid - 2013
We study the relation between people's personal values and environmentally friendly consumption behavior. We first assessed subjects' personal values using the Aspiration Index. Then subjects participated in a laboratory supermarket offering organic and conventional food products and different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291843
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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America
Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022
International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with "no strings attached," a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482866
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Values, food and bags: A study of consumption decisions in a laboratory supermarket
Matthey, Astrid; Kasser, Tim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We study the relation between people's personal values and environmentally friendly consumption behavior. We first assessed subjects' personal values using the Aspiration Index. Then subjects participated in a laboratory supermarket offering organic and conventional food products and different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603884
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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