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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291827
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How much of a socialist legacy? The reemergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Rusakova, Alina; … - 2012
The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291841
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A physician with a soul of a cook? Entrepreneurial personality across occupations
Sorgner, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and … entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the well-established psychological theory of vocational behavior, which emphasizes the crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291855
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Resource wealth and entrepreneurship: A blessing or a curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
investigate the reasons behind such a significant lag of the resource-rich countries in entrepreneurship. Panel data for more than … 80 countries from 2004-2009 shows that higher dependence on resource rents reduces entrepreneurship activities. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294372
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Impeded industrial restructuring: The growth penalty
Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J. - 2000
This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295598
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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297258
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Underdiversification in Private Companies: Required Returns and Incentive Effects
Müller, Elisabeth - 2004
Owners of private companies are often highly underdiversified which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. We investigate the consequences of underdiversification at the company level. Information on US companies and their owners is obtained from the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297370
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Entrepreneurship in the region: Breeding ground for nascent enterpreneurs?
Mueller, Pamela - 2005
Statistics to study nascent entrepreneurship. In particular, micro data from the GSOEP characterizing employees and nascent …-up activity, strongly indicate that regions with strong tradition in entrepreneurship are a breeding ground for nascent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298504
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Exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities: the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth
Mueller, Pamela - 2005
entrepreneurship is an important vehicle for knowledge flows and economic growth. The empirical results indicate that an increase in … innovative start-up activity is more effective than an increase in general entrepreneurship for economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298517