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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - 2007
The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically,...
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The differences in the impact of entrepreneurial abilities of various European SMEs on their financial risk perceptions
Civelek, Mehmet; Durda, Lukáš; Vincúrová, Zuzana; … - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 10 (2022) 4, pp. 107-124
management, this article also proves that international differences between SMEs exist. Implications & Recommendations: The …
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Success breeds success locally: a tale of incubator firms
Inci, Eren - 2006
This paper focuses on the pre-establishment period of start-ups in industrial districts. The industrial architecture is what I call a "rationed agglomeration" in which some entrepreneurs gather around an established firm while other entrepreneurs in the same business stand alone. In a rationed...
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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007
This article examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
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Separation of Ownership and Control: Delegation as a Commitment Device
Boukouras, Aristotelis - 2011
entrepreneur hires a worker, whose effort is necessary for running a project. The worker\'s effort determines the probability that … entrepreneur would pay out a smaller wage if he could commit to terminate the project if a delay occurs, but this threat is not …
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The entrepreneur's 'resource potential' and the organic square of entrepreneurship: Definition and application to the French case
Uzunidis, Dimitri; Boutillier, Sophie; Laperche, Blandine - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3 (2014), pp. 1-17
The aim of this conceptual paper is to study the origin of the entrepreneur's function. We examine the construction of … the entrepreneur's 'resource potential' (the set of knowledge, relations and financial resources gathered together by the … entrepreneur) and the role of the socio-economic background in this matter. The 'organic square of entrepreneurship' (resource …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant …
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Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure
Zunino, Diego; van Praag, Mirjam (C.M.); Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017
Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs’ past failure for investors’ decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information...
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Entrepreneurship, organization capital and the evolution of the firm
Oshima, Atsushi; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - 2008
We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she … starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms …
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The old-boy network and the quality of entrepreneurs
Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2010
We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...
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