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An exploratory analysis of the effects of the formalisation policy for individual micro-entrepreneurs
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; … - 2014
Entrepreneur Law). We intend to present evidence that helps clarify, albeit only partially, whether the policy was successful in … promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402557
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If you don’t succeed, should you try again? : the role of entrepreneurial experience in venture survival
Gottschalk, Sandra; Greene, Francis J.; Höwer, Daniel; … - 2014
avoiding bankruptcy. Conclusions for entrepreneurship scholars, entrepreneurs and stakeholders are discussed. …
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The bright but right view? : a new type of evidence on entrepreneurial optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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Contrasts and similarities in economic performance of migrant entrepreneurs
Şahín, Medíha; Nijkamp, Peter; Suzuki, Soushi - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
developed countries, with varying degrees of success. The concept of migrant entrepreneurship suggests a homogeneous set of …-generation migrants, and age. Finally, the paper offers some lessons on entrepreneurship strategies. …
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Entrepreneurial marketing : between entrepreneurial personality traits and business performance
Sarwoko, Endi; Nurfarida, Iva Nurdiana - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 2, pp. 105-118
Objective: Practices of traditional marketing cannot be fully applied to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs owners have a responsibility to replace the practice with innovative behaviour such as entrepreneurial marketing (EM). This objective of this study is to examine the role of...
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Businessman or Host? Individual Differences between Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in the Hospitality Industry
Wagener, Stephanie L. - 2013
Prior research has identified individual characteristics that distinguish business owners from non-business owners. We tested our contention that not every successful business owner can be characterized by such typical ldquo;entrepreneurialrdquo; characteristics. Multiple Analysis of Variance...
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Indian entrepreneurial success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …
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Entrepreneurial experience and usage of external business support
Ropega, Jaroslaw - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 331-339
Previous studies demonstrate that policy makers and practitioners should target support tailored to special needs of novice and habitual entrepreneurs. This paper aims to present a study of the role of prior business experience in the inclination to use external business support and the choice...
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The interplay of human and social capital in shaping entrepreneurial performance : the case of Vietnam
Santarelli, Enrico; Hien Thu Tran - 2012
This study investigates the effects of human capital, social capital and their interaction on the performance of 1,398 Vietnamese new-born firms. Operating profit is used as the measure of success. Human capital is captured by individual-level professional education, start-up experience, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731226
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An Examination of the Entrepreneurial Effort
Lowrey, Ying - 2007
representative agent's utility maximization problem and suggests a return to the classical economic theory of the entrepreneur in the … found to be the intrinsic character of the entrepreneur. This paper divides the human effort into subsistence production and … entrepreneurial production. When the representative entrepreneur is assumed to take pleasure in making entrepreneurial efforts, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059354