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Adhd-Like Behavior and Entrepreneurial Intentions
Verheul, I.; Block, Jorn H.; Burmeister-Lamp, Katrin; … - 2013
Little is known about the relation between validated psychiatric symptoms scores and the entrepreneurial decision. Building on the Person-Environment (P-E) fit literature and using data of over 10,000 students, we test whether individuals with higher levels of attention deficit and hyperactivity...
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Industry Dynamics and Entrepreneurship : An Equilibrium Model
Fok, D.; Stel, Andre van; Burke, Andrew E.; Thurik, Roy - 2010
This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants' role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198706
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Culture's Role in Entrepreneurship : Self-Employment Out of Dissatisfaction
Hofstede, Geert; Noorderhaven, N.; Thurik, Roy; … - 2009
. The bivariate relationship between levelof entrepreneurship and a number of economic factors, cultural traits … thelevel of entrepreneurship at the aggregated societal level. Findings indicate that the factors determining level of … entrepreneurship arecomplex, but the basic finding is that dissatisfaction with society and life ingeneral determines level of …
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Entrepreneurship, economic growth and what links them together : strategic study
Wennekers, Sander - 1997
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Genome-Wide Association Studies and the Genetics of Entrepreneurship
van der Loos, Matthijs J. H. M. - 2011
We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133990
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An Eclectic Theory of Entrepreneurship : Policies, Institutions and Culture
Verheul, I. - 2011
The resurgence of entrepreneurship in the Westernworld is a multi-faceted phenomenon that may be studied according to …-reward profile of entrepreneurship versus that of other types of employment, as well as on hisor her institutional and cultural … promote entrepreneurship, and the culture's general attitude toward entrepreneurship. (SAA) …
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Understanding Entrepreneurship Across Countries and Over Time
Audretsch, David B. - 2011
The Eclectic Theory of entrepreneurship isintroduced.The purpose of the theory is to provide a coherent …,interdisciplinary framework for understanding and analyzing what determinesentrepreneurship.The determinants of entrepreneurship in … least two important insights about theprevalence and the determinants of entrepreneurship in the countriesstudied …
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Nascent Entrepreneurship and the Level of Economic Development
Thurik, Roy - 2009
and the links between a country's economic development andits rate of entrepreneurship.The data were provided by the … between nascententrepreneurship and per capita income and between nascent entrepreneurship andthe innovative capacity index …" of entrepreneurship is, to an extent, governed by lawsrelated to economic development. (AKP) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154205
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The Effect of Entrepreneurial Activity on National Economic Growth
van Stel, Andre J. - 2009
development is presented. A description of the Total Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) data collected by the Global Entrepreneurship … countries.The effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth may be better understood via the theories of Schumpeter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154211
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Business Accomplishments, Gender, and Entrepreneurial Self-Image
Thurik, Roy - 2009
The purpose of this study is to determine whethergender and business accomplishments influence the degree to which individualsperceive themselves to be entrepreneurs.Following a review of theliterature on the relationships among gender business accomplishments andentrepreneurial self-image, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154398