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Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others : Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2020
We classify industries using measures of entry barriers and proceed to investigate how determinants of entry vary in high- as opposed to low-barrier fields. The wealth and educational background characteristics potential entrepreneurs possess, we found, predispose them to make distinctly...
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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups
Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002
We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups
Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002
We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324773
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Determinants of fast-growing SMEs' concentration in the Russian regions
Zemtsov, Stepan; Barinova, Vera; Sorokina, Alla - 2015
SMEs play an important role in the development of regional innovative systems because of their potential to accept new technologies and show fast growing rates. There is an interdependence between emergence of fast growing SMEs ('gazelles') and innovative development of regions. High level of...
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Unternehmensnachfolgen in Deutschland : aktuelle Trends
Moog, Petra; Kay, Rosemarie; Schlömer-Laufen, Nadine; … - 2012
Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the University of Siegen conducted a nationwide survey in co-operation with the Institute for …
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Financial strategies for long-term success in women-owned small businesses
Dyer, Melissa Renee - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 23 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
Failure of small businesses many times is because of poor implementation of long-term financial strategies. Women small business owners face many challenges in financing their small businesses because they may not have a financial plan. Interviews with 11 women small business owners in Cleveland...
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Enhancing women's engagement in entrepreneurial business activities
Ristovska, Natasha; Blazheska, Daliborka - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 11 (2020) 2, pp. 213-230
entrepreneurship varies in different parts of the world depending on the economic development of the region. However, the engagement of … entrepreneurship. …
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A multi-case study of entrepreneurial competencies in microenterprises
Yeh, Tzu-Jiun; Chang, Hung-Jung - In: International journal of management, economics and … 7 (2018) 4, pp. 321-346
the structure for further research for the practice and advancement of micro-entrepreneurship. …
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State-based conflict and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence
Naudé, Wim; Amorós, Ernesto; Brück, Tilman - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …
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Miltä startupit näyttävät tilastojen valossa?
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
In this study, we analyze the characteristics and development of Finnish startups based on firm-level data available in public databases. By startups we refer to young, small, and independent firms holding basic elements for growth. Some 4 000–5 000 of such firms are being established...
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