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Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … is based on new insights into the effects thatvariables, such as risk tolerance, trust and reciprocity, the value for … entrepreneurship research.... …
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The link between measured risk aversion and the decision to become an entrepreneur iswell established, but the link … between risk preferences and entrepreneurial success is not.Standard theoretical models of occupational choice under … uncertainty imply a positivecorrelation between an individual’s degree of risk aversion and the expected return froman …
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The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly … aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation of newcombinations of resources, and focuses on the nature of …-operative enterprises. Social entrepreneurship may be mapped on such a typology as acategory of entrepreneurship that primarily (a) is …
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In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags.We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...
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Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidenceregarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly,they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of newfirm formation on employment change...
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We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The maineffects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due tojob creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part ofthe debate about...
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This exploratory study focuses on the conversion from nascent to actual entrepreneurship and the role of entry barriers … in this process. Using data for a sample of countries partici-pating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 … and 2004, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent entrepreneurship rate and the young business entre-preneurship …
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entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition …
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This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been examined...
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In this paper, we consider how a better understanding of entrepreneurial activities can help explain how firm and industry boundaries change over time; and how a more complete understanding of boundary setting can help us understand where entrepreneurial activities are directed. We argue that...
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