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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2013

Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...

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Searching for the entrepreneurial personality: New evidence and avenues for further research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011

Economic Psychology on Personality and Entrepreneurship. The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the linkage … informative longitudinal data sets at the individual level are needed in order to find conclusive answers. In an ideal world … researchers would have access to data that includes personality characteristics and psychological traits, motivational factors and …

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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity: Do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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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 - 2012

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …

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US immigration policy at a crossroads

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...

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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies

Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - 2006

across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and …

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The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Stier, Claudia - 2022

entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent …

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Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rodriguez, 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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Access to Digital Finance: Equity Crowdfunding across Countries and Platforms

Estrin, Saul; Khavul, Susanna; Kritikos, Alexander S.; … - 2023

Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for …

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is …

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