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This report was written as part of the European Entrepreneurship Educators Programme (3EP). It outlines the detailed preparation and training required for a 12 months travel around the world for a family of 6 ranging in age from 16 to 53. The reader is taken through the conceptual foundation for...
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This research proposal will outline an investigation of the potential benefits and risks of hiring ex-offenders by family owned firms and entrepreneurs and what signals might positively differentiate one ex-offender from the next. Every year, over 600,000 offenders are released into society and...
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In this paper we present the results of a study analyzing the impact of an entrepreneurial company's initial organization on the structure of its reward and incentive systems, using data from entrepreneurial firms in Germany. The results suggest that the educational level of employees has the...
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Our theory of competitive advantage, namely the theory of entrepreneurial rent, posits that the firm's entrepreneurial orientation, their alertness, agility, absorptivity, and proactive adaptability, is a source of competitive advantage. The firm's entrepreneurial orientation sustained by the...
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The theme of the global Entrepreneurship Summit –‘Women First, Prosperity for All', highlighted that if women do better, countries do better. According to the Women's Financial Network, women start businesses at two times the rate of men. Traditional cultural perception perceived the roles...
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While much has been written on the quantity of jobs created by entrepreneurs, scholars have yet to examine the quality of these jobs. This paper begins to fill this gap by examining nearly 5,000 businesses that began operations in 2004. We investigate the extent to which nascent employers...
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We adopt a process-based approach to investigate the influence of entrepreneurial bosses on the two main decisions of employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study the push and pull mechanisms possibly underlying...
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This study aim is to describe the effect of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial role models toward entrepreneurial intention of university students, both directly and through mediation of perceived desirability and perceived feasibility. The population is business and management...
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We study the role of diversity and performance in entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical...
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In the present paper it will be attempted to estimate numerically the ability of the manager (who can be either the entrepreneur, or the CEO, as will be clarified by the proposed definition of the entrepreneurial remuneration) and relate it to the number of strikes, pointing out econometrically...
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