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Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Rodríguez, Daniel; … - 2023

Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the...

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Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs: new evidence from an experimentally-validated survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2006

The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2006

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2006

The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...

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“I want to, but I also need to” : start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set … unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …

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"I want to, but I also need to" : start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

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Skills and youth entrepreneurship in Africa : analysis with evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014

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Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs : new evidence from experimentally-validated survey

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2006

The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...

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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? : an ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2007

the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting …: first, there is almost no correlation detween the AC data and the questionnaire. Second, the predictive power of the AC data … where the AC data have low predictive power, the questionnaire does better. Third, when success is measured in terms of …

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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? : an ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2007

the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting …: first, there is almost no correlation between the AC data and the questionnaire. Second, the predictive power of the AC data … where the AC data have low predictive power, the questionnaire does better. Third, when success is measured in terms of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003440087