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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms. …
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This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by …, entrepreneurship has been an avenue out of poverty, and entrepreneurship has been promoted as a way to decrease welfare and …
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Persistence of entrepreneurship over longer periods of time could indicate a culture of entrepreneurship among the … World War II, the relationship between historical and current levels of entrepreneurship is not significant. Persistence of … entrepreneurship is related to the historical success of regions, which we capture by the pre-war level of and self-employment in …
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that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …
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compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …
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combinations of leadership factors impact entrepreneurship in both its launch and consolidation phases. Two relational models are … on the entrepreneurship consolidation stage. Utilising data from 50 countries of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a … that the use of some leadership capabilities has an unequal influence on entrepreneurship during its life cycle. This study …
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Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …
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Objective: This study aims to provide a deeper understanding of the connection between grit and its impact on female entrepreneurs. Research Design & Methods: A qualitative research study was conducted among female entrepreneurs from different industries and life stages. The theoretical...
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