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entrepreneurship and RBV-theories by showing how entrepreneurial capabilities lead to competitive advantages in nascent and early …
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the role of entrepreneurship within the United States economy. While many economists focus on the availability and … characteristics of individual entrepreneurs, other scholars attempt to address economic factors that create the context in which … role of entrepreneurship within the U.S. economy, critics note the use of aggregate data as a potential confounding factor …
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We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies capture risk loving behaviour (expenditure on gambling, smoking and alcohol)...
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The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no … the broad margins ofentrepreneurship but also the fluent boarders between entrepreneurship and the informal sector on … particular issue of margins of entrepreneurship not only within theconventional scope of entrepreneurship discussion but within …
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Using data from the confidential and restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) Survey, we provide some suggestive evidence on the causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background affects small business...
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and entrepreneurship in selected former Yugoslav countries. The goal was to determine whether firms’ objective remains the … firms, entrepreneurship, and self-employment.The answers and insights provided by these three essays reveal that merely … entrepreneurship and therefore cannot always serve as a basis for future growth. The first essay uses Macedonian firm-level data to …
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data set on Dutch entrepreneurs in 1995, we obtain findings that are broadly consistent with the theoretical model …. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point relaxation of capital constraints increases entrepreneurs' gross … business incomes by 3.9 percent on average. Also, education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly - with a rate of …
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This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … selection and performance. We first describe the main effects found in the current entrepreneurship literature. We then explain … conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, we find that the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is …
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entrepreneurs and their non-entrepreneurial colleagues. Results show that high-ability firm-owners in an ability-intensive industry …
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Venkataraman (2000) introduced entrepreneurship as a nexus between the opportunity and entrepreneurial individuals. Thus … they are often called - 'opportunities' is regarded as a key research goal in entrepreneurship (Davidsson, Hunter and … they had access to. Further, since entrepreneurs operate in an environment of heterogeneous and uncertain, they have to …
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