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Entrepreneurial exit in real and imagined markets

Stam, Erik; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Zwan, Peter van der - 2009 - Version: October 2009

Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at all, or to give up these entrepreneurial intentions. This...

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Social networking and gender effects in opportunity identification

Haddad, Gloria; Le Loarne, Séverine - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 24 (2015) 1, pp. 23-40

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Men and women in IT entrepreneurship : consolidating and deconstructing gender stereotypes

McDonnell, Martina; Morley, Chantal - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 24 (2015) 1, pp. 41-61

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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2009 - Current version: May 2009

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

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Entrepreneurial progress : climbing the entrepreneurial ladder in Europe and the US

Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2010 - Version: March 2010

through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …

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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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Risk attitudes and profits among small enterprises in Nigeria

Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...

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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011

economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …

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International staff mobility in higher education : to what extent could an intra-European entrepreneurial approach be applied to Sino-CEE initiatives?

Pearce, Alison Michèle; Quan, Rose - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 20 (2015) 2, pp. 226-254

strategic entrepreneurship and cultural difference, this study investigates the implementation of staff mobility in a cross …

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