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Entrepreneurship in China's Structural Transitions : Network Expansion and Overhang
Dai, Ruochen; Mookherjee, Dilip; Munshi, Kaivan; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This research examines the determinants of entrepreneurship in the initial transition from agriculture to industrial …
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Friendship at Work : Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?
Field, Erica - 2015
Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample...
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Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Starbucks Cafés
Choi, Jinkyong; Guzman, Jorge; Small, Mario Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops increased entrepreneurship. We find that, when compared to census tracts that …
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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Howell, Sabrina T. - 2019
. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480392
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …
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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Guzman, Jorge - 2015
A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457712
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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?
Lafontaine, Francine - 2014
in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458354
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Network-Based Hiring : Local Benefits; Global Costs
Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2020
Entrepreneurs, particularly in the developing world, often hire from their networks: friends, family, and resulting referrals. Network hiring has two benefits, documented extensively in the empirical literature: entrepreneurs know more about the ability of their network (and indeed they are...
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Immigrant Networking and Collaboration : Survey Evidence from CIC
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one's own firm are important features of entrepreneurship …
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Drug Diffusion Through Peer Networks : The Influence of Industry Payments
Agha, Leila - 2019
Pharmaceutical companies' marketing efforts primarily target physicians, often through individual detailing that entails monetary or in-kind transfers. We study how peer influence broadens these payments' reach beyond the directly paid physicians. Combining Medicare prescriptions and Open...
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