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National culture, entrepreneurship and economic development: different patterns across the European Union

Liñán, Francisco; Fernandez-Serrano, José - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 685-701

variable that helps explain the level of economic development and reinforces the effect of entrepreneurship on the income level …. Secondly, a deeper understanding of these relations in the case of the European Union is sought. In this study, data from two … Entrepreneurship Monitor provides information regarding entrepreneurial activity. Using linear regression analysis, cultural and …

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Business experience and start-up size: Buying more lottery tickets next time around?

Coad, Alex; Frankish, Julian; Nightingale, Paul; … - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 3, pp. 529-547

This paper explores the determinants of start-up size by focusing on a cohort of 6,247 businesses that started trading in 2004, using a unique dataset on customer records at Barclays Bank. Quantile regressions show that prior business experience is significantly related with start-up size, as...

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Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: an introduction to the special issue

Audretsch, David; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 531-537

still remains to be investigated on the role played by entrepreneurship in transforming local economies. The set of papers … of a bi-directional relationship between entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness, the papers shed some light on the …

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Non-profit organizations, entrepreneurship, social capital and economic growth

Bahmani, Sahar; Galindo, Miguel-Ángel; Méndez, María - In: Small Business Economics 38 (2012) 3, pp. 271-281

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“Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken”: entrepreneurship and happiness

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José; Cristi, Oscar - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 523-540

subjective well-being and use various data sources to uncover the first evidence of the relationship between entrepreneurship and …Do the presence and nature of entrepreneurship impact on national happiness, and are nations with happy citizens better … for entrepreneurs to start new businesses? To provide tentative answers we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and …

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Comment on Acs and Varga: Entrepreneurship, agglomeration and technological change

Klarl, Torben - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 215-218

-national, industrial-level data for nine selected European countries in order to investigate the link between entrepreneurship …:759–784, <CitationRef CitationID="CR7">1995</CitationRef>), they find that both agglomeration and entrepreneurship exhibit a statistically … rates but leaves out the effects induced by agglomeration and entrepreneurship on the level of knowledge. This might lead to …

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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814

Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...

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An overview of entrepreneurial activity in nonprofit organizations in the international context

Soriano, Domingo; Galindo, Miguel-Ángel - In: Small Business Economics 38 (2012) 3, pp. 265-269

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Entrepreneurial skills and workers’ wages in small firms

Baptista, Rui; Lima, Francisco; Preto, Miguel - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 309-323

This paper contributes to the understanding of how small firms are organized and managed. It tests an entrepreneur-worker matching model in small entrepreneurial firms. The model contemplates the existence of complementarities between workers’ and entrepreneur’s skills. Using a Portuguese...

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Conceptualizing knowledge-based entrepreneurship networks: perspectives from the literature

Hayter, Christopher - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 899-911

Efforts to promote and support knowledge-based entrepreneurship as a vehicle for economic development are increasingly … suggests that scholars embrace the nascent knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship to guide future empirical research on … entrepreneurship networks and focus intently on their impact on entrepreneurial performance—and therefore economic growth. Copyright …

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