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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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Young firms are known to grow at a faster rate than incumbents. With administrative firm data from Germany, we show that the higher growth rates indeed translate into upward mobility within the firm size distribution. Young firms are therefore not only able to catch up, but also to grow larger...
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This paper responds to Welter's (2011) call to pay more attention to the diversity of entrepreneurship in theorizing … entrepreneurship places". Our discussion illustrates some useful cues our research might draw on to challenge and improve theoretical … understanding of place in entrepreneurship. …
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entrepreneurship, which might be responsible for different effects of start-up activity on regional development. Therefore, we examine … the growth implications rural entrepreneurship might have on the local economy. Our results suggest that new business … counties. The results also unveil that the often-cited inverse U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurship and GDP growth is …
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This paper utilizes German tax data to present evidence about the direct and indirect effects of new firm formation. Cohort analysis is applied to investigate survival, sales, inputs, and value added of start-up firms. Most drop-outs occur in the early years. We show that start-up...
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The paper reviews the current discussion on institutional change and institutional entrepreneurship. Specifically, it … and unintentionally. We find that the concept of institutional entrepreneurship does not provide an adequate conceptual … institutional entrepreneurship. …
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