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A Note on Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Economic Growth
Thurik, Roy; Wennekers, Wennekers, A.R.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001
aspects of the recent scientific literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business, on the one hand, and … pay a penalty in terms of forgone growth. It also pays attention to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a new and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730954
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Business Takeover or New Venture? Individual and Environmental Determinants from a Cross-Country Study
Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; van der Zwan, van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
about the preferred mode of entry into entrepreneurship, such as taking over an existing business or starting a new venture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731128
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Post-Materialism as a Cultural Factor Influencing Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations
Thurik, Roy; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M.; Hutjes, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731278
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Entrepreneurial Activity, Self-Perception and Gender
Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002
entrepreneurship, as well as direct and indirect effects of gender. Results support the model of both direct and indirect effects of … gender. The paper provides insights into gender issues in entrepreneurship as well as the definition of entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731406
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Towards an Untrepreneurial Economy? The Entrepreneurship Industry and the Rise of the Veblenian Entrepreneur
Hartmann, Rasmus Koss - 2020
What is driving the declining quality of innovation-driven entrepreneurship? In this paper, we argue the growing … entrepreneurship industry is an important yet overlooked explanation. This rapidly growing industry has transformed the nature of … entrepreneurship and encouraged a particular form of low-quality entrepreneurship. It has done so by leveraging the Ideology of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847044
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The Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Resource-Based View on Growth of Small Firms
Ferreira, João J. M.; Azevedo, Susana - 2007
This research provides a useful framework for identifying a small firms' propensity to engage in entrepreneurial orientation. We examine the impact of the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) as a main resource and capability on small firm' growth. Growth seems to come out as an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222707
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Human Capital, Social Capital and Performance : An Empirical Test from an Entrepreneurial Project-Based Industry
Usai, Alessandro; Delmestri, Giuseppe; Montanari, Fabrizio - 2001
Interpersonal ties facilitate access to resources and ideas. What should be their intensity? And how do the human and social capital of entrepreneurs affect the performance of their projects? We investigated this in the Italian cinema industry in the 1990s, focussing on the director's role....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127353
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Opportunity Discovery, Problem Solving and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm
Hsieh, Chihmao; Nickerson, Jackson A.; Zenger, Todd - 2009
When should an entrepreneur employ a market to help discover and exploit opportunities, and when should the entrepreneur create a firm to do so? If a firm is created, how should it be organized? In this paper we argue that opportunities equate to valuable problem-solution pairings, and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051217
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Networks in Entrepreneurship
Elfring, Tom; Hulsink, Willem - 2006
The value of networks as integral part of the explanation of entrepreneurial success is widely acknowledged. However, the network perspective lacks specification of the various dimensions of a network and their impact on the early development of a venture. We make a distinction between a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031513
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Entrepreneurial Activity, Self-Perception and Gender
Verheul, I.; Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Roy - 2012
entrepreneurship, as well as direct and indirect effects of gender. Results support the model of both direct and indirect effects of … gender. The paper provides insights into gender issues in entrepreneurship as well as the definition of entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092508