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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...

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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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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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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...

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