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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship:The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extremeevents – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions ofentrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure instarting a business...

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …

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Venture Capitalists’ Evaluations of Start-up Teams:Trade-offs, Knock-out Criteria, and the Impact of VC Experience

Franke, Nikolaus; Gruber, Marc; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - Technische Universität <München> / Theo Schöller … - 2006

The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists’ evaluations of venture proposals. Ourfindings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs’ team evaluationcriteria, and second by investigating the moderator variable of VC experience. Our results...

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What you are is what you like –similarity biases in venture capitalists’evaluations of start-up teams

Franke, Nikolaus; Gruber, Marc; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - Technische Universität <München> / Schöller Chair in … - 2005

This paper extends recent research studying biases in venture capitalist’s decision-making. Wecontribute to this literature by analyzing biases arising from similarity between a venture capitalist andmembers of a venture team. We summarize the psychological foundations of such similarity...

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Migration and Rural Entrepreneurship

Li, Yu; Artz, Georgeanne M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

This paper investigates entrepreneurship of migrants and their location choice in attempt to draw connections between … migration and economic development, especially the role of business formation in rural development. Rural entrepreneurship is …

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The practice of social entrepreneurship: Theory and the Swedish experience

Stryjan, Yohanan - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fachbereich Wirtschaft - 2005

The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly … aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation of newcombinations of resources, and focuses on the nature of …-operative enterprises. Social entrepreneurship may be mapped on such a typology as acategory of entrepreneurship that primarily (a) is …

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The Effect of New Firm Formation on Regional Development over Time

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004

In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags.We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...

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Regional Growth Regimes Revisited The Case of West Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004

Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidenceregarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly,they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of newfirm formation on employment change...

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Direct and Indirect Effects ofNew Business Formation onRegional Employment

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela; Weyh, Antje - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004

We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The maineffects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due tojob creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part ofthe debate about...

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