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Corporate Entrepreneurship : Sensing and Seizing Opportunities for a Prosperous Research Agenda
Jansen, Justin J. P. - 2011
Strategic and corporate entrepreneurship have been widely acknowledged by scholars and executives alike as an effective … resolve the challenges associated with corporate entrepreneurship's emphasis on leveraging existing opportunities as well as … for moving forward research on strategic entrepreneur - ship in general and on corporate entrepreneurship in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126957
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Hoping to win, expected to lose : theory and lessons on micro enterprise development
Karlan, Dean; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - 2012
relaxed, and find mixed support for this theory. -- entrepreneurship ; credit constraints ; business training ; consulting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615069
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean S. - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101353
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development
Karlan, Dean S. - 2013
We show how financial and managerial constraints impede experimentation and thus limit learning about the profitability of investments. Imperfect information about one's own type, but willingness to experiment to learn one's type, leads to short-run negative expected returns to investments, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085940
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Does Self-Efficacy Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?
Cassar, Gavin - 2011
We empirically examine the effect of self-efficacy on entrepreneurial investment choices. We identify various attributes of entrepreneurial investment, and argue that higher self-efficacy is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that self-efficacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134685
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Mind the gap : institutional and individual antecedents of entrepreneurial trajectories in the academic context
Bijedić, Teita; Chlosta, Simone; Nielen, Sebastian; … - 2017
(nascent entrepreneurship) and finally business creation (entre-preneurship) by combining two waves of a survey with a time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776018
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Entrepreneurial Activity, Self-Perception and Gender
Verheul, I.; Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Roy - 2012
entrepreneurship, as well as direct and indirect effects of gender. Results support the model of both direct and indirect effects of … gender. The paper provides insights into gender issues in entrepreneurship as well as the definition of entrepreneurship in …
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The role of the environment in entrepreneurial propensity of youngsters' business ideas
Czakó, Katalin; Polster, Csilla; Setyaningsih, Santi; … - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 12 (2023), pp. 1-19
Entrepreneurship shows regional differences through countries' history, economic environments, society and habits of … research concept and the results may give useful inputs in knowledge transfer and education of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496706
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Does Self-Efficacy Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?
Cassar, Gavin; Friedman, Henry L. - 2011
We empirically examine the effect of self-efficacy on entrepreneurial investment choices. We identify various attributes of entrepreneurial investment, and argue that higher self-efficacy is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that self-efficacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046401
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And the children shall lead : gender diversity and performance in venture capital
Gompers, Paul A.; Calder-Wang, Sophie - 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901551