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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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Differences between entrepreneurs and employees in their educational paths
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Tuor Sartore, Simone; Wettstein, … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
This paper examines whether individuals who become either entrepreneurs or employees follow systematically different educational paths to a given educational level. Following Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory, we expect that entrepreneurs aim at a balanced set of different skills (academic or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672229
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Implementing the Corporate Entrepreneurial Dynamic : the Role of the Information System at the AEF
Léger-Jarniou, Catherine; Viala, Céline - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Innovation and globalization are considered as the main two engines of economic performance . Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE), entrepreneurship within existing organizations, is a source of innovation and performance for businesses (Miller, 1997; Guth and Ginsberg, 1990; Hornsby and al., 1993 ; Zahra, 1993;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747577
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Hierarchies, the Small Firm Effect, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish Microdata
Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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/10010818500
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Experience and Entrepreneurship
Rider, Christopher I.; Thompson, Peter; Kacperczyk, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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/10010685047
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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/10010320211
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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/10010320353
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Entrepreneurs, HRM Orientations and Environmental Fit: A UK-Japan Comparison in High Tech Manufacturing
Whittaker, Hugh; Byosiere, Philippe; Higuchi, Junpe; … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006
Entrepreneurs cannot develop a business single handedly. One of the most important tasks the entrepreneur faces is to recruit, allocate work to, motivate and retain employees who will help the business to grow. Based on survey data, this paper examines the HRM orientations of UK and Japanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005549422
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik G. - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2006
We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We argue that firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645073
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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