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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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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors, and their contribution to employment growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 719-733

This study documents that the survival of start-ups is central in explaining the relationship between entry and regional employment growth. Distinguishing between start-ups according to the period of their survival shows that the positive effect of new business formation on employment growth is...

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Entrepreneurship, structural change, and economic growth

Noseleit, Florian - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 735-766

The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. While the importance of factor reallocations for growth is widely discussed, the role of entrepreneurs in managing these reallocations is currently not well...

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Surviving Against the Tide: Are New Businesses in Innovative Industries Less Affected by General Economic Trends?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...

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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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