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Financial Constraints on New Firms: Looking for Regional Disparities
Bonnet, Jean; Cieply, Sylvie; Dejardin, Marcus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2005
Financial constraints affecting new firms are some of the factors most cited for impeding entrepreneurial dynamics from flourishing. This article introduces the problem of regional patterns of financial constraints. The research is conducted with regard to the French regions and the new French...
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On the role of entrepreneurial experience for start-up financing : An empirical Investigation for Germany
Metzger, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim> - 2007
Entrepreneurs are often faced with problemsregarding start-up financing. But compared to noviceentrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs shouldhave both more knowledge and better contacts, whichshould potentially reduce the occurrence of problemsand affect finance composition. However, experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859207
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The Social Case as a Business Case: Making Sense of Social Entrepreneurship from an Ordonomic Perspective
Beckmann, Markus - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2009
advancing the practice of social entrepreneurship.From an ordonomic perspective, the concept of social entrepreneurship offers a … Social Entrepreneurship zu entwickeln. Aus ordonomischerSicht verbindet sich mit dem Konzept von Social Entrepreneurship eine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870662
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Does the employee–customer satisfaction link hold for all employee groups?
Wangenheim, Florian v.; Evanschitzky, Heiner; … - TU <München> / Lehrstuhl für Dienstleistungs- und … - 2006
Increasingly, retailers nowadays have to focus on service marketing strategies and tactics to differentiate themselves from their competitors.Delivering high levels of service quality becomes crucial for long-term success. Since customers' perception of service quality depends very muchon the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302509
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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … entrepreneurship research.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353909
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity:Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in bothpositively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variablesof social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurswho are permanently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360565
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity intoentrepreneurial positions based on fixed individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360612
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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns
Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen; Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionallycomprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existingstudies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self … that entrepreneurship tends to be profitable. It also raisesincome uncertainty, but the most successful quartile gains much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360630
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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
employer (‘nascent intrapreneurship’) or independently(‘nascent entrepreneurship’). Analysis of a nationally representative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360635
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WHY ARE OPTIMISTIC ENTREPRENEURS SUCCESSFUL?AN APPLICATION OF THE REGULATORY FOCUS THEORY
Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Sauka, Arnis - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2008
Does entrepreneurial optimism affect business performance? Using a unique data setbased on repeated survey design, we investigate this relationship empirically. Ourmeasures of ‘optimism’ and ‘realism’ are derived from comparing the turnovergrowth expectations of 133 owners-managers with...
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