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What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?
McMullen, Jeffery S.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2007
What an entrepreneurial opportunity is and from whence it comes are important issues for understanding how markets function and come into being. In addition to describing the forum held on the topic and summarizing the contributions of the articles that appear in the special issue, this article...
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Born local: two avenues to internationalization
Ács, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri - 2007
Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271773
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Personal bankruptcy law, wealth and entrepreneurship : theory and evidence from the introduction of a "fresh start"
Fossen, Frank M. - 2011
, lenders may charge higher interest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of a more … experiment, based on representative household panel data. The results indicate that the insurance effect of a more forgiving … entrepreneurship. -- personal bankruptcy law ; insolvency ; entrepreneurship ; fresh start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126032
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Personal bankruptcy law, wealth and entrepreneurship : theory and evidence from the introduction of a "fresh start“
Fossen, Frank M. - 2011
, lenders may charge higher interest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of a more … experiment, based on representative household panel data. The results indicate that the insurance effect of a more forgiving … entrepreneurship. -- Personal bankruptcy law ; insolvency ; entrepreneurship ; fresh start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308943
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Personal bankcuptcy law, wealth and entrepreneurship : theory and evidence from the introduction of a "fresh start"
Fossen, Frank M. - 2011
, lenders may charge higher interest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of a more … experiment, based on representative household panel data. The results indicate that the insurance effect of a more forgiving … entrepreneurship. -- Personal bankruptcy law ; insolvency ; entrepreneurship ; fresh start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008042
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Risk attitudes and private business equity
Fossen, Frank M. - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute … to an explanation of entrepreneurial behavior. -- Entrepreneurship ; risk aversion ; portfolio choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579232
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship : theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark C. - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. -- immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559123
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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than … parental self-employment. -- entrepreneurship ; personality ; Big Five ; risk aversion ; locus of control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233946
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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than … parental selfemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Personality ; Big Five ; Risk Aversion ; Locus of Control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008036
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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than … parental selfemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Personality ; Big Five ; Risk Aversion ; Locus of Control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009426699