Österreich und Deutschland sind nicht nur Nachbarländer sondern auch in der Geschichte Mitteleuropas historisch eng verbunden - so sehr, daß Österreicher und Deutsche neben der gemeinsamen Sprache auch wichtige Grundüberzeugungen politischer, sozialer und kultureller Art teilen. Trotzdem...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the extent to which high growth ambitions of entrepreneurs...

Österreich und Deutschland sind nicht nur Nachbarländer sondern auch in der Geschichte Mitteleuropas historisch eng verbunden - so sehr, daß Österreicher und Deutsche neben der gemeinsamen Sprache auch wichtige Grundüberzeugungen politischer, sozialer und kultureller Art teilen. Trotzdem...

Österreich und Deutschland sind nicht nur Nachbarländer sondern auch in der Geschichte Mitteleuropas historisch eng verbunden - so sehr, daß Österreicher und Deutsche neben der gemeinsamen Sprache auch wichtige Grundüberzeugungen politischer, sozialer und kultureller Art teilen. Trotzdem...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

The paper argues that when developing an explanatory model of the early-stage entrepreneurial activity level (measured by total index of early entrepreneurial activity - TEA) one should consider the "path dependency" of the "institutional matrix" of different societies. Otherwise one could...

Objective: The objective of this article is to assess and compare the factors influencing the performance of new ventures within top business accelerators across three countries using the Resource Based View (RBV) theory. Research Design & Methods: The key analysed parameters are funding...

In this paper we analyze microdata to explore differences in the rates at which American and German workers leave their salaried jobs to become self-employed. We document that the rate of self-employment is lower in Germany than in the U.S., and the rate of transition from wage-earning to...

The paper argues that when developing an explanatory model of the early-stage entrepreneurial activity level (measured by total index of early entrepreneurial activity - TEA) one should consider the ‘path dependency' of the ‘institutional matrix' of different societies. Otherwise one could...