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Job satisfaction and retirement age intentions in Finland: Self-employed versus salary earners

Kautonen, Teemu; Hytti, Ulla; Bögenhold, Dieter; … - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) March, pp. 424-440

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of job satisfaction on the intended retirement age of self-employed and organisationally-employed white-collar professionals. The analysis also examines potential boundary conditions imposed by other domains of life for the...

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The devil you know? The potential downside of strong and weak ties for entrepreneurial team formation

Zolin, Roxanne; Kautonen, Teemu; Kuckertz, Andreas - 2008

Principal Topic -- Since the late 1980s researchers have been theorizing about entrepreneurial teams (Kamm, et al., 1990), exploring their existence (Ensley, et al., 1999), discussing their formation and evolution (Virany & Tushman, 1986; Clarysse & Moray, 2004; Ucbasaran, et al., 2005; Forbes, et al., 2006;...

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Human resource flexibility and strong ties in entrepreneurial teams

Zolin, Roxanne; Kuckertz, Andreas; Kautonen, Teemu - 2010

Human resource flexibility is important in entrepreneurial ventures that need to respond to the changing challenges of growing the new business. This research investigates the impact of previously well-known people (strong ties) as entrepreneurial team members on the human resource flexibility...

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Ties that blind? How strong ties affect small business owner-managers? perceived trustworthiness of their advisors

Kautonen, Teemu; Zolin, Roxanne; Kuckertz, Andreas; … - 2010

This research investigates how a strong personal relationship (strong tie) between a small business owner-manager and his professional or informal advisor affects the relationship between the advisor's recent performance and the owner-manager's perceptions of the advisor's trustworthiness in...

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Regional competitiveness, university spillovers, and entrepreneurial activity

Audretsch, David; Hülsbeck, Marcel; Lehmann, Erik - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 587-601

This study examines the impact of regional competitiveness on the innovative activity of entrepreneurial firms. Based on a unique and hand-collected dataset of publicly listed high-technology start-ups and university regions, this paper tests how regional competitiveness and university...

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Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: an introduction to the special issue

Audretsch, David; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 531-537

still remains to be investigated on the role played by entrepreneurship in transforming local economies. The set of papers … of a bi-directional relationship between entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness, the papers shed some light on the …

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The Effects of Experience, Ownership, and Knowledge on IPO Survival: Evidence from the Neuer Markt

Audretsch, David; Lehmann, Erik - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2004

We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance for young and high-tech firms. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German counterpart of the NASDAQ, our results differ from studies on more traditional firms. Ownership by...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

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Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …

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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

.Â However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … outcomes of native-born Americans.Â However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined …

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