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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.... …
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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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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486960
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Banking Entrepreneurship Differentials between Europe and Usa : A Note
Georgiou, Miltiades N.; Kyriazēs, Nikos K. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
The present paper refers to the field of "corporate convergence theory". A recent work on corporate convergence of Krishna et al. (2002) points out that there is little evidence that common standards in corporate fovernance have been implemented.Besides, in the same study (page 2) it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864879
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A Practical Method to Estimate Entrepreneurship's Reward
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
to estimate entrepreneurship's reward. As an example, a regression, based on the entrepreneurship's reward, with baning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864979
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The Fragile Success of Team Start-ups
Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864998
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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry
Oort, Frank G. van; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865017
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On the Real Effects of Private Equity InvestmentEvidence from New Business Creation
Popov, Alexander; Roosenboom, Peter - European Central Bank - 2009
Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equityaffects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits newbusiness incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates andR&D intensity. A two standard deviation increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866482
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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