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We empirically explore the importance of networks in the match formation of startups and investors. Using a massive network of connections from the entrepreneurial finance setting in California, we estimate a matching model introducing network distance as a key determinant of the value of a...
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collective entrepreneurship, there are similarities reflecting the networks status of both cases. In contrast, there are some … variations concerning the development of collective entrepreneurship within the businesses which affect the type of corporate … entrepreneurship (CE) activities developed by the firms.Research limitations/implications – By using a case study approach, it is hard …
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-panel approach is used with micro data from the Spanish Global Monitor Entrepreneurship adult population survey over the period 2006 …
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pseudo-panel approach is used with micro data from the Spanish Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) adult population survey …
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pseudo-panel approach is used with micro data from the Spanish Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) adult population survey …
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Entrepreneurs are usually exhorted to attract the best networked investors. We provide further insights into this advice by estimating network effects in the performance of entrepreneurial ventures. We show dimensions that are critical in this estimation, such as the consideration for startups'...
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To date, most of the literature on economic networks in West Africa has considered networks in a metaphorical way. The aim of this paper is to go one step further by showing how network analysis may be applied to the study of regional trade in West Africa. After a brief review of the literature,...
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Economists tend to reduce all corruption to impersonal market-like transactions, ignoring the role of social ties in shaping corruption. In this paper, we show that this simplification substantially limits the understanding of corruption. We distinguish between market corruption (impersonal...
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Economists tend to reduce all corruption to impersonal market-like transactions, ignoring the role of social ties in shaping corruption. In this paper, we show that this simplification substantially limits the understanding of corruption. We distinguish between market corruption (impersonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011970915
Despite the belief that networks are essential to entrepreneurial success, very few studies consider the role of networks in the founding of new organizations. In response, we test the direct and interactive effects of the characteristics of nascent entrepreneurs’ supporter networks and...
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