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We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid-1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...
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basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of … and stringency of enforcement) and informal (e.g., attitudes and social legitimacy) institutions. We further argue that …
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employment. We further explore whether individual's social networks compensate for weaknesses in national institutions. We use … test our ideas. We find that the relationship between growth aspiring entrepreneurs and institutions is complex; they …
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basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of … and stringency of enforcement) and informal (e.g., attitudes and social legitimacy) institutions. We further argue that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184638
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
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We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship in the mid- 1920s have higher start-up rates about 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884466
In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia …
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In this paper we use a comparative perspective to explore the ways in which institutions and networks have influenced …
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This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship- facilitating entry … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never … affected both occupational groups in opposite ways. Our findings indicate that labor market institutions do not play an …
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basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of … and stringency of enforcement) and informal (e.g., attitudes and social legitimacy) institutions. We further argue that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504516