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Gold, Robert - 2012

Based on five research papers, the dissertation "Institutions and Entrepreneurship" analyzes institutional influences on entrepreneurship, as well as determinants and effects of institutional change. In particular, the effects of implicit institutions, i.e. societal norms and values, on the...

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Billionaires

Sanandaji, Tino; Leeson, Peter T. - 2012

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is … typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation … kinds of entrepreneurs. We find that the institutions consistent with self-employed entrepreneurs differ markedly from the …

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For benevolence and for self-interest : social and commercial entrepreneurial activity across nations

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stephan, Ute - 2011

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For benevolence and for self-interest : social and commercial entrepreneurial activity across nations

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stephan, Ute - 2011

We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990) productive entrepreneurship and that it will...

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Schooling and the formation of cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes

Lüdemann, Elke - 2011

This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is a micro...

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Billionaire entrepreneurs : a systematic analysis

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2013

order to unmistakably identify Schumpeterian entrepreneurs we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) on Forbes Magazine …'s list who became wealthy by founding new firms. In this way we identify 996 billionaire entrepreneurs in over fifty … entrepreneurs, an economically important group. We demonstrate that the common practice of relying on self-employment and related …

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Geographical contexts of entrepreneurship : spaces, places and entrepreneurial agency

Stam, Erik; Welter, Friederike - 2020

focus simultaneously on the geographical contexts for entrepreneurship and the agency of entrepreneurs within those. The …

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Court-ship, kinship and business : a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - 2015

In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...

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Determinant of social norms

Voigt, Stefan - 2022

development of social norms, and suggests that religion and family organization are potential mediators. It turns out that many …

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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...

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