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Entrepreneurship, taxation and capital investment

Kitao, Sagiri - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 1, pp. 44-69

Augmenting a standard Bewley model with an entrepreneurial sector and occupational heterogeneity allows us to study important channels through which fiscal policies affect aggregate variables, factor prices, wealth distribution and welfare. To disentangle the forces involved, we consider...

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Entrepreneurial behaviour in a large traditional firm: exploring key drivers

Mair, Johanna - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

variance within the same company. Drawing on literature in entrepreneurship, strategic management, organizational behaviour and …

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Why stakeholder and stockholder theories are not necessarily contradictory: A knightian insight

Velamuri, Rama; Venkataraman, Sankaran - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2005

The normative foundations of the investor centered model of corporate governance, represented in mainstream economics by the nexus-of-contracts view of the firm, have come under attack, mainly by proponents of normative stakeholder theory. We argue that the nexus-of-contracts view is static and...

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Post-Materialism as a Cultural Factor Influencing Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations

Uhlaner, L.M.; Thurik, A.R.; Hutjes, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002

The study of the determinants of entrepreneurship at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. The … relative stability of differences in levels of entrepreneurship across coun-tries suggests that other forces such as certain …

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Postmaterialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations

Uhlaner, L.M.; Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2006

distinction is made between nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and a combination of the two, referred to as total … entrepreneurial activity, as defined within the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The model is also tested for the rate of …

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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States

Jaeger, David; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Akee, Randall … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2007

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our...

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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …

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DOING BUSINESS IN THE TORRES STRAITS: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND THE NATURE OF INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURS

LEE-ROSS, DARREN; MITCHELL, BENJAMIN - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 12 (2007) 02, pp. 199-216

This qualitative study focuses on the relationship between culture and entrepreneurship in the Torres Strait Islands … form known as "marginal" entrepreneurship. Using Hofstede's (1994) model of cultural dimensions linked to key western … entrepreneurial traits, a sample of 61 Torres Strait entrepreneurs showed sizable perceptual trait differences compared with western …

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THE EFFECTS OF ETHNICITY, FAMILIES AND CULTURE ON ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE: AN EXTENSION OF SUSTAINABLE FAMILY BUSINESS THEORY

DANES, SHARON M.; LEE, JINHEE; STAFFORD, KATHRYN; HECK, … - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 13 (2008) 03, pp. 229-268

Entrepreneurs have been traditionally epitomized as rugged individuals garnering creative forces of innovation and … technology. Applying this traditional, limited, and narrow view of entrepreneurship to ethnic firm creation and growth is to …

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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES: DIFFERENT VALUES SO DIFFERENT PROCESS OF CREATION, NO?

DORADO, SILVIA - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 11 (2006) 04, pp. 319-343

Entrepreneurship scholars have identified factors that frame the entrepreneurial process, such as the gender, race …, ethnicity and wealth of entrepreneurs, the technological nature of the products or services offered, or the geographic location …

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