We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extremeevents – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions ofentrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure instarting a business...

This paper investigates entrepreneurship of migrants and their location choice in attempt to draw connections between migration and economic development, especially the role of business formation in rural development. Rural entrepreneurship is firstly attempted to be better understood form...

Unternehmensgründer sind speziellen ethischen Herausforderungen ausgesetzt, vor allembei der Formulierung von Geschäftsideen, bei der Befolgung der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen,beim Verfassen von Businessplänen, beim Verhandeln mit Geschäftspartnernund beim Markteintritt. Sie verhalten sich...

In financing start-up firms, venture capitalists carefully select among alternative projects,design incentive compatible financial contracts and support portfolio companies with valueenhancing managerial advice. This paper considers how venture capitalists can induce selfselectionamong...

Fostering and supporting start-up businesses by unemployed persons has become anincreasingly important issue in many European countries. These new ventures are beingsupported by various governmental programs. Potential benefits include not only the end ofunemployment for the new entrepreneur but...

Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have moreskills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connectionscould give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital.This paper uses a large...

For decades suggestion systems have been used include employees in innovation process. However, in order to gather superior ideas, integrating external stakeholders is critical to the innovation process. Wwwithin this paper the authors derive a sophisticated model of an integrated idea...

Aufgrund der nach wie vor äußerst unbefriedigenden Lage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt wird intensiv nach Lösungen gesucht, diese Situation zu verbessern. Dabei sind, nicht zuletzt aufgrund ihrer geschichtlichen Entstehung als Kinder der Not (Marburger Bank o. J.), auch die Genossenschaften in den...

Die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Entstehen und der Entwicklung junger Unternehmen ist, da nach wie vor weiße Flecken auf der Forschungslandkarte bestehen, notwendig und spannend. Auf der Basis mehrmaliger Befragungen zweier Jahrgänge von Gründungsunternehmen schließen die...

The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly visible mode of economic action, and as animportant policy tool. The paper outlines a typology that departs from aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation...