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Learning Opportunities and Learning Behaviours of Small Business Starters: Relations with Goal Achievement, Skill Development and Satisfaction

Gelderen, Marco; Sluis, Lidewey; Jansen, Paul - In: Small Business Economics 25 (2005) 1, pp. 97-108

Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short- and long-term business performance, as well as to personal development. This study investigates when and how small business starters learn. It specifies the situations that offer learning opportunities, as well as the...

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Entrepreneurship in the EU: To Wish and not to be

Grilo, Isabel; Irigoyen, Jesus-Maria - In: Small Business Economics 26 (2006) 4, pp. 305-318

: latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the probability of a declared preference for self … perception of lack of available financial support in the latent entrepreneurship equation. Copyright Springer 2006 …

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The Individual – Opportunity Nexus: A Review of Scott Shane: A General Theory of Entrepreneurship

Casson, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 24 (2005) 5, pp. 423-430

entrepreneurship, and also to identify unresolved issues. It is argued that the nature of ‘opportunity’, and the cognitive basis of …

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Entrepreneurship in the Theory of the Firm

Auerswald, Philip - In: Small Business Economics 30 (2008) 2, pp. 111-126

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Growth, Diversification, and Business Group Formation in Entrepreneurial Firms

Iacobucci, Donato; Rosa, Peter - In: Small Business Economics 25 (2005) 1, pp. 65-82

Recent empirical research has demonstrated that the growth process of entrepreneurial firms is frequently achieved through the formation of business groups: i.e. a set of companies run by the same entrepreneur (or entrepreneurial team). This has been hypothesised as result of a growth process by...

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The Influence of Entrepreneurial Risk Assessment on Venture Launch or Growth Decisions

Norton, William; Moore, William - In: Small Business Economics 26 (2006) 3, pp. 215-226

Entrepreneurs are thought to engage in riskier behavior than nonentrepreneurs, yet little empirical evidence supports that intuitively appealing notion. We argue instead that differences in information, not risk aversion, may explain the decision to launch or grow a venture. We separately test...

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth: Evidence from GEM data

Wong, Poh; Ho, Yuen; Autio, Erkko - In: Small Business Economics 24 (2005) 3, pp. 335-350

– high growth potential TEA, necessity TEA, opportunity TEA and overall TEA. Of the four types of entrepreneurship, only high … growth potential entrepreneurship is found to have a significant impact on economic growth. This finding is consistent with …

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The Determinants of Latent Entrepreneurship in Japan

Masuda, Tatsuyoshi - In: Small Business Economics 26 (2006) 3, pp. 227-240

This paper examines regional characteristics affecting the latent entrepreneurship in Japan, focusing on regional … governments. We define two types of people having the latent entrepreneurship as follows (1) persons merely wishing to be a self … unemployment rate, which are the macro economic indicators, had positive effects on latent entrepreneurship in Japan. Judging from …

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Not for Lack of Trying: American Entrepreneurship in Black and White

Köllinger, P.; Minniti, M. - In: Small Business Economics 27 (2006) 1, pp. 59-79

Using a sample obtained from a survey conducted in the United States during summer 2002, we study the variables related to observed differences in the rate of entrepreneurial involvement between black and white Americans. We find strong evidence that differences in subjective and often biased...

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Being in Someone Else’s Shoes: the Role of Gender in Nascent Entrepreneurship

Minniti, Maria; Nardone, Carlo - In: Small Business Economics 28 (2007) 2, pp. 223-238

and women. Specifically, it has been shown that women are much less likely to be involved in entrepreneurship than men …

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