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Kathleen Eisenhardt: recipient of the 2012 <Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Carlsson, Bo - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 797-804
This article reviews the academic contributions of the 2012 receiver of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research … markets. Her work in the entrepreneurship field centers on strategy and organization, especially in technology-based companies …, what she refers to as “high-velocity industries”. Her main empirical contribution to the entrepreneurship field is her work …
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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814
Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment
Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Gesellschaft für Arbeitsmarktaktivierung - 2006
This paper empirically analyses whether the character-based approach which is based on the personality and on the human capital of business founders, al- lows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005379420
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Risikobereitschaft und Unternehmenserfolg
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 29, pp. 409-411
aufweisen. Dies zeigt eine aktuelle empirische Studie. Sind die Unternehmer sehr risikoscheu oder aber besonders risikofreudig …
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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Steven Klepper: Recipient of the 2011 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Carlsson, Bo - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 2, pp. 131-140
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
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Maryann Feldman: Recipient of the 2013 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Lorenzen, Mark; Carlsson, Bo - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 1, pp. 1-8
This article reviews the scientific contributions of the 2013 recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship … clustering. She has also addressed other important aspects of contemporary entrepreneurship research, such as how academic … entrepreneurship is influenced by intellectual property rights and modes of finance and how high-technology entrepreneurship aligns …
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