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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - 2009
employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269378
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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants
van der Zwan, Peter; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2006
We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325547
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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and The US
van der Zwan, Peter; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - 2009
We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325726
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The use and effect of social capital in new venture creation: Solo entrepreneurs vs. new venture teams
Cantner, Uwe; Stützer, Michael - 2010
This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271190
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - 2008
The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it", "taking steps for starting up", "having a young business", "having an older business" and "no longer being an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279550
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - 2006
The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from never thought about starting a business to gave up, thinking about it, taking steps for starting up, having a young business, having an older business and no longer being an entrepreneur. By using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318828
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Regional Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Biotech Industry: Exploring the Transition from Award-winning Nascent Entrepreneurs to Real Start-ups
Wolf, Harald; Michelsen, Claus; Schwartz, Michael - 2010
Knowledge of factors that determine the transition from nascent entrepreneurship into real entrepreneurship is of major importance for policies aiming to effectively stimulate start-ups. Whereas scholars concentrated on person-specific factors to explain transition probabilities, environmental...
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Job creation and the intra-distribution dynamics of the firm size distribution
Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2012
Based on a three equations model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth we estimate firm-specific transition probabilities between size classes of the firm size distribution. This allows to analyze counterfactual scenarios that assess the impact of changes in exogenous variables on the...
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Intrapreneurship and trust
Elert, Niklas; Stam, Erik; Stenkula, Mikael - 2019
employees, so-called intrapreneurship. We hypothesize that generalized trust influences the prevalence of intrapreneurship in an … economy, and the allocation of entrepreneurial talents between independent entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, through two … level of job autonomy in organizations necessary for intrapreneurship to flourish. Second, by way of its influence on the …
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Individual and structural influences on the entrepreneurial activities of academics
Bijedić, Teita; Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; … - 2016
In this paper we study how and to what extend (i) individual working conditions (e.g. peers, working atmosphere, work contract incentives, wage satisfaction), (ii) institutions (e.g. technology transfer offices, patent exploitation agencies, chair in entrepreneurship or awards for academic...
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