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Community Cultural Values and Personality Traits as Factors Associated with Entrepreneurial Motivation. The Case of Entrepreneurs in Collective and Privatized Kibbutzim
Klein, Galit - 2022
explores how the tension between different community values impacts the motivation to establish a new business. The research is … context to the individual’s motivation to become an entrepreneur. In this study, motivation is measured in accordance with the … the motivation factors, with the proactive personality acting as a moderator of the connection between kibbutz type and …
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Hierarchies, the small firm effect, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Swedish microdata
Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - 2013
We explore whether the tendency for smaller firms to have fewer hierarchical layers explains the well-documented inverse correlation between firm size and the rate at which employees become business owners. Our analysis is based on a Swedish matched employer-employee dataset. Conditional on firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709507
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Experience and entrepreneurship
Rider, Christopher I.; Thompson, Peter; Kacperczyk, … - 2013
We document in two very different datasets an inverted U-shaped relationship between work experience and entrepreneurship among movers. The first dataset consists of 1,248, U.S. lawyers who were forced to seek alternative employment after the sudden dissolutions of their employers. The second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781959
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Determinants and Dynamics of Business Aspirations : Evidence from Small-scale Entrepreneurs in an Emerging Market
Dalton, Patricio S. - 2018
Small-scale entrepreneurs are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, yet very few graduate to become larger businesses. We ask whether such entrepreneurs even aspire to grow, and if so, on which dimensions of the business? What factors influence these aspirations, how realistic are they, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926829
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Founder Involvement in CEO Turnover
Kowalewski, Oskar - 2019
We study the role of a company founder in its internal governance. Using a sample of 484 CEO turnovers for 2000-2015, we establish that CEOs are red for poor performance. However, the likelihood of a poor-performing founder-CEO being fi red is lower than that of an outsider CEO. Moreover, having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894964
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Responsible Tourism that Creates Shared Value Among Stakeholders
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2016
This paper maintains that responsible tourism practices can be re-conceived strategically to confer competitive advantage. It looks at the extant literature surrounding the notions of “responsible tourism” and “shared value”. A qualitative research involved in-depth, semi-structured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978432
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Founder CEOs and Acquirer Returns : Evidence from IPO Firms
Lee, Joon Mahn - 2016
. The results are consistent across various robustness checks that control for potential selection issues and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999723
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Experience and Entrepreneurship : A Career Transition Perspective
Rider, Christopher I. - 2019
We cast entrepreneurship as one of three career choices – remaining with one's employer, changing employers, or engaging in entrepreneurship – and theorize how the likelihood of entrepreneurship evolves over one's career. We empirically demonstrate an inverted U-shaped relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012905265
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Startup Acquisitions as a Hiring Strategy : Worker Choice and Turnover
Kim, J. Daniel - 2020
This study investigates the effectiveness of high-tech startup acquisitions as a hiring strategy (“acqui-hiring”) versus traditional hiring. Using population-level data from US Census, I find that acquired workers exhibit significantly greater rates of turnover than regular hires, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851311
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Hierarchies and Entrepreneurship
Tåg, Joacim; Astebro, Thomas B.; Thompson, Peter - 2016
We establish a correlation between the hierarchical structure of a firm and the likelihood of business creation among its former employees, using a sample of 16 million observations of Swedish workers and a novel proxy for hierarchies based on occupation data. Conditional on firm size and many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039429