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Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs : new evidence from an experimentally-validated survey
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2006
unemployment or inactivity risk attitudes do not seem to play a role in the decision process. -- risk attitudes ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003333112
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“I want to, but I also need to” : start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009
unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932123
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"I want to, but I also need to" : start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009
unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921269
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Searching for the entrepreneurial personality : new evidence and avenues for further research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. -- entrepreneurship ; personality characteristics ; risk aversion ; trust ; autonomy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309604
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Entrepreneurs and their impact on jobs and economic growth : productive entrepreneurs can invigorate the economy by creating jobs and new technologies, and increasing productivity
Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
competitiveness of the economy and may establish new jobs. The gains of entrepreneurship are only realized, however, if the business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413660
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Is neoclassical economics still entrepreneurless?
Bianchi, Milo (contributor); Henrekson, Magnus (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. March 29, 2005
We review and evaluate some recent contributions on the modeling of entrepreneurship within a neoclassical framework … describe it. However, each modeling attempt focuses only on one specific feature of entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial … highlight how a simplistic interpretation of the existing mainstream approaches incorporating entrepreneurship runs the risk of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002570545
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Does Self-Efficacy Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?
Cassar, Gavin - 2011
We empirically examine the effect of self-efficacy on entrepreneurial investment choices. We identify various attributes of entrepreneurial investment, and argue that higher self-efficacy is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that self-efficacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134685
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'I Want to, But I Also Need to' - Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144636
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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality : New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316006
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs : New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317560