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What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?
McMullen, Jeffery S.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltan J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007
What an entrepreneurial opportunity is and from whence it comes are important issues for understanding how markets function and come into being. In addition to describing the forum held on the topic and summarizing the contributions of the articles that appear in the special issue, this article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765224
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What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?
McMullen, Jeffery; Plummer, Lawrence; Acs, Zoltan - In: Small Business Economics 28 (2007) 4, pp. 273-283
The nature and source of entrepreneurial opportunity are important issues for understanding how markets function and come into being. In addition to describing the forum held on the topic and summarizing the contributions of the articles that appear in the special issue, this article shares a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005722523
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Serial entrepreneurship: differentiating direct from latent re-entrants
Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - 2007
This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263804
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. Socioeconomic heritage has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267124
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Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity : 1996-2007
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
estimate of business creation by detailed demographic group. Unlike other studies that primarily capture the creation of new … business owners in their first month of significant business activity serves as a leading indicator of new business creation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708962
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Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, 1996-2006
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
The Kauffman Index measures the monthly rate of business creation at the individual owner level, reporting the percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050400
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Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity : 1996-2008
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2009
data from the Current Population Survey since 1996, the Kauffman Index allows comparisons of new business creation over … time. Key findings include: • The oldest age group - ages 55 to 64 - experienced a big increase in business-creation rates … from 2007 to 2008 and, as a result, has the highest level of business creation (0.36 percent). • The activity rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208346
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Properties of opportunity creation and discovery : comparing variation in contexts of innovativeness
Jones, Raymond; Barnir, Anat - In: Technovation : the international journal of … 79 (2019), pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250583
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Serial Entrepreneurship: Differentiating Direct from Latent Re-entrants
Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090465
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. "Socioeconomic heritage" has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509230