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Self-employment in Germany: The trend has been increasing for some time

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 3, pp. 17-26

Entrepreneurial self-employment in Germany has undergone a strong upturn in the last 20 years. The number of self-employed people rose by 40 percent between 1991 and 2009. The reasons for this development are the catch-up processes in eastern Germany, structural change towards the service...

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Dice thrown from the beginning? An empirical investigation of determinants of firm level growth expectations

Terjesen, Siri; Szerb, Lászlo - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 153-178

nascent, baby and established firms. Using 25,384 data points from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)'s survey of …

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Patent as a motivation of starting a new entrepreneurial activity of high potential

Goniadis, Iraklis; Goniadis, Yannis - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 97-108

advancement of entrepreneurship in Greece, 3) the biggest proportion of the patent holders remained inactive, without any …

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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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Exploring the nuances in the relationship “culture-strategy” for the business world

Dimitrov, Kiril - In: Vanguard Scientific Instruments in Management 12 (2016) 1

The current article explores interesting, significant and recently identified nuances in the relationship “culture-strategy”. The shared views of leading scholars at the University of National and World Economy in relation with the essence, direction, structure, role and hierarchy of...

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Challenges of Evaluation of the Influence of Entrepreneurship Education

Peterk, Suncica Oberman; Koprivnjak, Tihana; Mezulic, Petra - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 13 (2015) 2, pp. 74-86

programmes in entrepreneurship at all levels of education is steadily increasing worldwide. It is often said that … entrepreneurship education is one of the most important development and economic mechanisms. Organizational structure, content … economic development of the environment in which they operate. Entrepreneurship education has a positive influence on the …

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Innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin America: What do we know? What would we like to know?

Alvarez, Roberto; Grazzi, Matteo - In: Estudios de Economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 157-171

entrepreneurship rates have been identified as two of the main reasons for this situation. In this paper, we present a synthetic but … evaluations performed to assess innovation and entrepreneurship policies implemented in Latin America. This review, together with …

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The endowment effect on entrepreneurs: A risky attachment

Echeverry Peñón, Isabela; Reyes Ortega, Santiago - In: Estudios de Economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 231-249

This paper presents evidence on the role of the endowment effect in shaping the risk-taking behavior of entrepreneurs, and how the potential of losing their firms lead them to take higher risks. This study uses an experimental design with 466 entrepreneurs in Cali, Colombia. Results show that...

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The influence of social capital on opportunity emergence and exploitation: A comparison of portfolio and serial entrepreneurs

Lechner, Christian; Kirschenhofer, Florian; Dowling, Michael - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 5 (2016) 28, pp. 1-23

Habitual entrepreneurs are a frequent and important phenomenon in entrepreneurship and for the economy. We lack … habitual entrepreneurship, we conducted a case study research focusing on the social capital of habitual entrepreneurs and on …

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Assessing the impact of employee participation on team-work performance: A way to reinforce entrepreneurship

Oikonomou, Aikaterina - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 68 (2018) 2/3, pp. 48-61

and its basic characteristics are also analyzed for entrepreneurship reinforcement. Specifically, we argue that business …

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