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Disentangling the effects of new venture team functional heterogeneity on new venture performance
Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Stuetzer, Michael - 2010
Previous research on entrepreneurial teams has failed to settle the controversy over whether team heterogeneity helps or hinders new venture performance. Reconciling this inconsistency, this paper suggests a new conceptual approach to disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by...
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Linking the cultural capital of the entrepreneur and early performance of new ventures: A cross-country comparison
Wdowiak, Malgorzata A.; Schwarz, Erich J.; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 17 (2012) 2, pp. 149-183
individualistische Werte der Gründer den Unternehmenserfolg signifikant beeinflussen. In weniger fortgeschrittenen … Transformationswirtschaften hat der kulturelle Hintergrund des ökonomischen Akteurs einen stärkeren Einfluss auf den Unternehmenserfolg als … von Neugründungen kulturell bedingt ist und dass diese Aspekte in die Entrepreneurship-Forschung besser integriert werden …
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Gender differences and new venture performance
Jaiswal, Mayank - In: New England Journal of Entrepreneurship (NEJE) 23 (2020) 1, pp. 41-61
performance of FNVs. Originality/value The paper furthers the literature on women entrepreneurship by analyzing point estimates of …
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups
Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002
We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
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The Relationship between Firm Births and Job Creation
van Stel, André; Storey, David - 2002
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 central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...
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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and The US
van der Zwan, Peter; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - 2009
through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …
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Alkuvaiheen koko, osakeyhtiömuoto ja kasvuhakuisuus selittävät nuorten yritysten toteutunutta kasvua
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
In this report, we study the development of Finnish startup firms based on both survey and register data. The sample includes all firms that were founded in the first half of the year 2005, and those firms have been monitored for eight years. We find that entrepreneurs in growth-oriented...
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Miltä startupit näyttävät tilastojen valossa?
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
In this study, we analyze the characteristics and development of Finnish startups based on firm-level data available in public databases. By startups we refer to young, small, and independent firms holding basic elements for growth. Some 4 000–5 000 of such firms are being established...
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Onko uusyrittäjyyden luonne muuttunut?
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
About half of all new business activity in Finland can be categorized as being entrepreneurial. The number of this kind of new businesses has not increased dramatically during the last ten years. However, the characteristics of these businesses have changed. Nowadays, new entrepreneurs have...
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