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The German Mittelstand: antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model?

Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike - 2019

Whilst internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to emulate it, the current debate … in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and … non-innovative - in short: as a hindrance to Germany's economic future. We therefore ask whether the Mittelstand actually …

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Creative forces for entrepreneurship : the role of institutional change agents

Welter, Friederike; Smallbone, David - 2015

The paper reviews the current discussion on institutional change and institutional entrepreneurship. Specifically, it focuses on institutional change agents, by which we mean individuals whose actions can be shown to have contributed to formal or informal institutional change, to the benefit of...

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The gendering of entrepreneurship context

Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida G.; De Bruin, Anne - 2014

The paper builds on the understanding of context as suggested by Welter (2011) who introduced different dimensions of context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the...

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