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Personal values and entrepreneurial attitude as intellectual capital: Impact on innovation in small enterprises
Sánchez-Báez, Edgar A.; Fernández Serrano, José; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 20 (2018) 49, pp. 771-787
effect on innovation. It is also noted that entrepreneurial attitudes, such as openness to change and self …-transcendence, have a mediating role in the positive impact of values on innovation. The article contributes to the literature by showing … to influence innovation in small businesses. …
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Can street entrepreneurs be Schumpeterian entrepreneurs? The case of food trucks as family firms in an emerging country
Matzembacher, Daniele Eckert; Leite Gonzales, Rogério; … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 9 (2019) 6, pp. 1-24
characterize entrepreneurship, its motivations, knowledge and capacity for innovation. A participant observation was carried out … Schumpeterian condition. This paper advances in theoretical knowledge by identifying that the Schumpeterian innovation of this … in places in which knowledge is disseminated as innovation. …
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim A. - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research
Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - 2008
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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The surprising use of credit scoring in small business lending by community banks and the attendant effects on credit availability and risk
Berger, Allen N.; Cowan, Adrian M.; Frame, W. Scott - 2009
The literature has documented a positive relationship between the use of credit scoring for small business loans and small business credit availability, broadly defined. However, this literature is hampered by the fact that all of the studies are based on a single 1998 survey of the very largest...
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Why do borrowers pledge collateral? New empirical evidence on the role of asymmetric information
Berger, Allen N.; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A.; Frame, W. Scott - 2007
An important theoretical literature motivates collateral as a mechanism that mitigates adverse selection, credit rationing, and other inefficiencies that arise when borrowers hold ex ante private information. There is no clear empirical evidence regarding the central implication of this...
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Do small group health insurance regulations influence small business size?
Kapur, Kanika; Karaca-Mandic, Pinar; Gates, Susan M.; … - 2006
The cost of health insurance has been the primary concern of small business owners for several decades. State small group health insurance reforms, implemented in the 1990s, aimed to control the variability of health insurance premiums and to improve access to health insurance. Small group...
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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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Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners
van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2003
Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
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