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The Entrepreneurial Adjustment Process in Disequilibrium
Burke, Andrew E. - 2009
The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in …
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Industry Dynamics and Entrepreneurship : An Equilibrium Model
Fok, D.; Stel, Andre van; Burke, Andrew E.; Thurik, Roy - 2010
This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants' role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198706
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Is More Entrepreneurship Better?
Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - 2009
We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200729
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle
Koellinger, Philipp; Thurik, Roy - 2009
contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207942
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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - 2009
models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that - when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208199
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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2011
In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325670
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Who Values The Status of The Entrepreneur?
Mirjam van Praag - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325746
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2011
-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326409
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan
van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - 2007
This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325508
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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?
Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2006
entrepreneurs from the Netherlands provides broad support for the theory; implications for policy-makers concerned about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325359