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Disentangling Crowdfunding from Fraudfunding
Karami, Moein; Cumming, Douglas; Hornuf, Lars; … - 2017
Using Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the two largest crowdfunding platforms, we conduct an exhaustive search of all fraud cases from 2010 through 2015. We present evidence that fraudsters in crowdfunding markets have specific characteristics: they are less likely to have engaged in prior...
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Development of Small and Medium Entrepreneurship in the Republic Of Croatia
Radlović, Ivana; Hunjet, Anica; Kozina, Goran - 2020
Entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic growth and a generator of employment opportunities in all modern economies … across the world. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of modern entrepreneurship. In the Republic of Croatia … a business, and to describe the state of small and medium entrepreneurship in the Republic of Croatia. …
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Business networks, social capital and the productivity of creative industries in Indonesia
Fahmi, Fikri Zul - 2016
This study examines the role of social and professional networks in the productivity of creative firms in Indonesia. In so doing, mixed methods are employed, including multilevel modelling as well as qualitative analysis, which is also performed to elaborate further on the process in which...
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Intergenerational transmission of self-employed status in the informal sector: a constrained choice or better income prospects? Evidence from seven West-African countries
Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - 2011
personal choice and dynamic entrepreneurship. Using 1-2-3 surveys collected in the commercial capitals of seven West African …
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Micro-level Evidence on the Survival of German Manufacturing Industries - A Multidimensional Analysis
Schindele, Yvonne; Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...
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Composition of regional conditions for start-up activity- evidence based on Swiss Mobilite Spatiale regions
Kronthaler, Franz; Becker, Katharina; Wagner, Kerstin - 2010
results of the theoretical and empirical literature on entrepreneurship. Cluster Analysis serves to compare different regions …
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Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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Survival dynamics in Portugal, a regional perspective
Sarmento, Elsa Morais; Nunes, Alcina - 2010
facts and determinants of new firm survival, a new entrepreneurship database was produced, using the administrative data of … comparability, in line with the "Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme" (OECD/Eurostat 2008 and 2009). We thus obtained a specific … application of a recent internationally comparable methodology for entrepreneurship to provide a multidimensional regional …
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Does Quality make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010
entrepreneurship policy, which can be derived from our findings. …
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Entrepreneurial activity across European cities
Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - 2010
The importance of entrepreneurship as a driving force in the economic development has been widely recognised …-regional differences. Given limited city-level data availability, scarce work has been undertaken so far on cross-city entrepreneurship … within the spatially oriented entrepreneurship research. Furthermore, to our best knowledge, no empirical studies exist on …
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