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This paper investigates impact of cultural origin on entrepreneurship. Using Swedish registry data on second …’ home countries affect entrepreneurship. We find that children of immigrants from more risk-loving cultures are more likely … to enter entrepreneurship and establish larger firms that are less profitable. We also observe that culturally inherited …
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This paper investigates the effects of cultural origin on entrepreneurship. Using Swedish registry data on second …’ home countries affect entrepreneurship. We find that children of immigrants from more risk-loving cultures are more likely … to enter entrepreneurship and establish larger firms that are less profitable. We also observe that culturally inherited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357345
This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...
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-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation … by increasing employment and productivity in both the modern and traditional sectors. -- entrepreneurship ; economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725597
Although there is a large and rapidly growing literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation, relatively little is known about the interrelation between the characteristics of start-up firms and urban structure. It is only recently that scholars of urban economics...
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the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
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conceptual model to illustrate and map the interdependence between evasive entrepreneurship and the regulatory response it …, yet its founders became convicted criminals because of it. Applying the evasive entrepreneurship framework to this case … improves our understanding of the relationship between policymaking and entrepreneurship in the digital age, and is a first …
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This article is the first one that considers a model of the choice between the different types of crowdfunding, which contains elements of the asymmetric information approach and behavioral finance (overconfident entrepreneurs). The model provides several implications, most of which have not yet...
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This article is the first one that considers a model of the choice between the different types of crowdfunding, which contains elements of the asymmetric information approach and behavioral finance (overconfident entrepreneurs). The model provides several implications, most of which have not yet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925818
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
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