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A conversation with 590 nascent entrepreneurs
Campbell, Jeffrey R.; De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2007
, but they tend to have more education than the general population. Growing up in a family in which one or both parents had …
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Family-related employment interruptions and self-employment of women: Does policy matter?
Suprinovič, Olga; Schneck, Stefan; Kay, Rosemarie - 2015
This paper analyzes how statutory entitlements to maternity or parental leave affect female entry into self-employment after childbirth. For our estimations we use comprehensive panel data for German adults born between 1944 and 1989. We find that utilization of statutory parental leave...
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Zum Einfluss des Geschlechts des Übergebers auf die Wahl des familieninternen Nachfolgers: Eine theoretische und empirische Analyse in deutschen Familienunternehmen
Schlömer-Laufen, Nadine; Kay, Rosemarie - 2013
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Determinanten der Entscheidung, einen Sohn oder eine Tochter zum familieninternen Nachfolger zu bestimmen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf dem Geschlecht des Übergebers. Nationale wie internationale Forschungsarbeiten deuten darauf hin, dass...
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The gendering of entrepreneurship context
Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida; De Bruin, Anne - 2014
The paper builds on the understanding of context as suggested by Welter (2011) who introduced different dimensions of context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the...
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"It takes three to tango": Brain, cognition and entrepreneurial enhancement
Pérez-Centeno, Víctor - 2017
In the global clash for unveiling the 'innermost secrets' of the brain, the field of neuroscience is the most fitting contender. Neuroscience is not quite ready to win the war for now, but it is assuredly equipped to win some battles. Notwithstanding that entrepreneurship is fundamentally a...
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The German Mittelstand: Antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model?
Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike - 2019
Whilst internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to emulate it, the current debate in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and non-innovative - in short: as a hindrance to Germany's...
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Emotions and entrepreneurship education: State of the art and future research agenda
Pérez, Víctor Centeno; Kansikas, Juha - 2019
Entrepreneurship education holds the potential to mitigate unemployment and boost prosperity, yet emotions, one of its …, and vice versa. Across entrepreneurship education, the role of emotions as learning drivers is acknowledged but barely … of the empirical evidence that touches upon the subject of entrepreneurship education and emotions. From the analysis …
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Brain-driven entrepreneurship research: Expanded review and research agenda towards entrepreneurial enhancement
Pérez-Centeno, Victor - 2018
The advent of significant advances in neuroscience has produced the capacity to examine the human brain at a profound level, yet the academic and practical value of existing evidence based on neuroscience techniques and methods within the field of entrepreneurship remains unexplored. To address...
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An international comparison of the contribution to job creation by high growth firms
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Dumont, … - 2018
This paper addresses three simple questions: how should the contribution of HGFs to job creation be measured? how much does this contribution vary across countries? to what extent does the cross-country variation depend on variation in the proportion of HGFs in the business population? The first...
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Im Auge des Betrachters? Warum wir zwischen KMU und Mittelstand unterscheiden müssen
Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike; Audretsch, David B. - 2021
Bis heute gibt es kein gemeinsames, weithin akzeptiertes und konsequent angewandtes Verständnis dessen, was den Mittelstand ausmacht. Die meisten empirischen Untersuchungen zu mittelständischen Unternehmen stützen sich auf Daten von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU). Obwohl diese...
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