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This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that...
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The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it" , "taking steps for starting up" , "having a young business" , "having an older business" and "no longer being an...
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We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...
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We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...
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This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489510
employer (‘nascent intrapreneurship’) or independently(‘nascent entrepreneurship’). Analysis of a nationally representative … and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage theirgeneral human capital and social ties to …
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employees, so-called intrapreneurship. We hypothesize that generalized trust influences the prevalence of intrapreneurship in an … economy, and the allocation of entrepreneurial talents between independent entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, through two … level of job autonomy in organizations necessary for intrapreneurship to flourish. Second, by way of its influence on the …
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employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to … ; intrapreneurship ; sample selection …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse in-depth collaboration as a process that emerges from interactions among individuals in order to develop entrepreneurial actions within established family firms. The research is contextualized in the metal sector in Catalonia (Spain), using...
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employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152609