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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups
Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002
We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
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Are Entrepreneurs more Optimistic and Overconfident than Managers and Employees?
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2015
Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than … entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … show that on average entrepreneurs are more optimistic than others in their dispositional optimism and attributional style …
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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2011
intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …
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Intuitive versus Contemplative: Do Entrepreneurs differ in their Decision-Making Style from Managers and Employees?
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam (C.M.) - 2017
We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision … conventional wisdom, we find that entrepreneurs have a stronger subjective Faith in Intuition than others. Their actual action … choices are partly in line with this: entrepreneurs make indeed more intuitive choices than managers, but are equally …
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - 2003
This paper focuses on a new concern in the small firm’s literature, namely what makes a small firm stay in business for a long time. It reflects a change in economic policy, away from an emphasis on volume of start-ups to an emphasis on quality of start-ups. The basic hypothesis is that...
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, Mirjam; Vijverberg, Wim - 2003
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...
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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; van Stel, André; … - 2003
This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for...
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Does Entrepreneurship reduce Unemployment?
Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Thurik, A.R. - 2001
In this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic performance. We test these hypotheses using county level data...
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The Relationship between Firm Births and Job Creation
van Stel, André; Storey, David - 2002
This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition
Aidis, Ruta - 2003
Identification of the entrepreneur's economic function has engaged economistsfor more than 200 years. In this paper we address the issue of entrepreneurship intwo distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economicsand b) as it develops in the transitional context. In...
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