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Successful entrepreneurship : confronting economic theory with empirical practice

Praag, Mirjam van - 2005

entrepreneurship derived from empirical evidence, in an attempt to discover what makes for an accomplished entrepreneur. The author … one successful as an entrepreneur?" thereby supporting or dispelling various existing myths. Individual factors …

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Successful entrepreneurship : confronting economic theory with empirical practice

Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005

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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016

The founder (team)ś human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founderś choice of the initial...

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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016

The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458941

Entrepreneurship selection and performance

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, … - 2004

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...

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Business survival and success of young small business owners

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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Quantity and quality of jobs by entrepreneurial firms

Block, Jörn; Fisch, Christian; Praag, Mirjam van - In: Oxford review of economic policy 34 (2018) 4, pp. 565-583

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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success

Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Congregado, Emilio - 2013 - Version: September 2013

performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … the possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus … shape the supply function of the entrepreneur. Likewise, the demand function faced by the entrepreneur is also likely to be …

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Business survival and success of young small business owners

Praag, Mirjam van - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 21 (2003) 1, pp. 1-17

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