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Approaching the agora: Determinants of scientists' intentions to purse academic entrepreneurship
Goethner, Maximilian; Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, … - 2009
entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual factors. Empirical results demonstrate that intentions to start a science-based new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267110
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Personality and career: she's got what it takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2009
influence of human capital and other objective factors on career opportunities. In our study, we go a step further by also … looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271571
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What is a self-made expat? Self-disclosures of self-initiated expatriates
Roth, Steffen; Dana, Léo-Paul - 2015
The label expatriates is increasingly used by and applied to a growing number of persons who do not fit classical concepts of company-driven expatriation. While relevant research is engaged in establishing interaction with smaller samples of self- initiated expatriates, the present article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520578
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298851
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Erklärung der individuellen Existenzgründungsabsicht: Die 'theory of planned behavior' als sozialpsychologisches Modell im Gründungskontext
Tegtmeier, Silke - 2006
Mittels einer empirischen Untersuchung (n=208) bei Lüneburger Studierenden wird Ajzens 'Theory of Planned Behavior' - eine einschlägige Theorie zur Erklärung spezifischen Verhaltens- auf die Erklärung der individuellen Gründungsabsicht angewendet. Im Anschluss an die Darlegung des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302835
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600985
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Entrepreneurship and cultural creativity
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and … individuals of the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP). We find, indeed, some significant links between entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267115
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. Socioeconomic heritage has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267124
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What's the difference?! Gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business
Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010
, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269688
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Intelligence, Self-confidence and Entrepreneurship
Asoni, Andrea - 2011
I investigate the effect of human capital on entrepreneurship using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979. I … robust to controlling for selection into entrepreneurship and selection into college. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320404