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Entrepreneurs, investors, and equity financing : a resource-economic analysis

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Survival of the fittest in cities : urbanisation and inequality

Behrens, Kristian; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2013

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Rethinking social entrepreneurship and social enterprises : a three-dimensional perspective

Lundström, Anders; Zhou, Chunyan - In: Social entrepreneurship : leveraging economic, …, (pp. 71-89). 2014

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Ex-Offenders, Family Owned Firms, and Entrepreneurs : A Study of Signals

Williams, David Lindsey - 2011

This research proposal will outline an investigation of the potential benefits and risks of hiring ex-offenders by family owned firms and entrepreneurs and what signals might positively differentiate one ex-offender from the next. Every year, over 600,000 offenders are released into society and...

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Successful Entrepreneurs are Not Risk Takers : Toward a Theory of Entrepreneurial Decision Making

Murmann, Johann Peter - 2011

Many scholars see entrepreneurs as action-oriented individuals who use rules of thumb and other mental heuristics to make decisions, but who do little systematic planning and analysis. We argue that what distinguishes successful from unsuccessful entrepreneurs is precisely that they vary their...

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Frank H. Knight on the 'Entrepreneur Function' in Modern Enterprise

Emmett, Ross B. - 2011

context used to explore Knight's theory of entrepreneurship is his later arguments regarding the problem of intelligent …Frank Knight's theory of the entrepreneurial function in modern enterprise is explored in two contexts. The first is … the dismissal of the neoclassical theory of business enterprise by Berle and Means in The Modern Corporation and Private …

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The Knowledge Society, Entrepreneurship, and Unemployment

Audretsch, David B. - 2011

of the world. Entrepreneurship is essential to developing this comparative advantage. Because knowledge-based economic …Discusses the role of globalization and the knowledge based economy as causes of increased entrepreneurship and … presents some calculations about consequences. In particular, a two-way causation exists between entrepreneurship and …

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Elitists, Risk-Takers, and Rugged Individualists? An Exploratory Analysis of Cultural Differences between Entrepreneurs and Non-Entrepreneurs

McGrath, Rita Gunther - 2011

This study examines whether or not certain values are likely to be held consistently by entrepreneurs, which are not held by non-entrepreneurs. The four underlying dimensions of culture from Hofstede's 1980 study--power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity--are used to...

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Entrepreneurs and Cities : Complexity, Thickness, and Balance

Strange, William C. - 2010

beneficial to entrepreneurs (Lazear (2004, 2005)). This paper unifies these approaches to agglomeration and entrepreneurship. It …

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Rational Inattention and Employer Learning

Habermalz, Steffen - 2010

learning model with the theory of rational inattention introduced by Sims (2006). In the model firms optimally allocate …

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