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We estimate the effects of income from various sources on charitable giving using administrative German income tax data … remaining income sources. 2) An entrepreneurship researcher would conclude that business owners are more generous than employees …
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Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young...
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employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We … complement prior research that is mostly based on aggregate data by analyzing cyclical effects at the firm level. Using new … linked employer-employee data on German start-ups we show that under constant human capital of the firms' founders …
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The influence of innovative entrants on incumbents is considered important for technological change. We analyze this influence for the global transition towards alternative technology vehicles (ATVs). Our results indicate that entrants' ATV-related knowledge accumulation stimulates average...
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survival. Drawing on entrepreneurial learning theories, we use panel data on 8,400 new ventures to investigate the impact of … avoiding bankruptcy. Conclusions for entrepreneurship scholars, entrepreneurs and stakeholders are discussed. …
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Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
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uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track these firms until 2001 which enables us to … entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …
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entry strategies. The four main groups of entry strategies are independency entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship …, spin-out entrepreneurship and necessity entrepreneurship. The results indicate that firms conducting R&D continuously start … new market opportunities as well as spin-out entrepreneurship exhibit a higher initial size while start-ups established …
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matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no …
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