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The entrepreneur's ‘resource potential’ and the organic square of entrepreneurship : definition and application to the French case
Uzunidis, Dimitri; Boutillier, Sophie; Laperche, Blandine - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 3 (2014), pp. 1-17
entrepreneur) and the role of the socio-economic background in this matter. The ‘organic square of entrepreneurship’ (resource …The aim of this conceptual paper is to study the origin of the entrepreneur's function. We examine the construction of … the entrepreneur's ‘resource potential’ (the set of knowledge, relations and financial resources gathered together by the …
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The bright but right view? : a new type of evidence on entrepreneurial optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2014
heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …
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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338727
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Contrasts and similarities in economic performance of migrant entrepreneurs
Şahín, Medíha; Nijkamp, Peter; Suzuki, Soushi - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
developed countries, with varying degrees of success. The concept of migrant entrepreneurship suggests a homogeneous set of …-generation migrants, and age. Finally, the paper offers some lessons on entrepreneurship strategies. …
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Ability dispersion and team performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...
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Occupational choice, number of entrepreneurs and output : theory and empirical evidence with Spanish data
Salas-Fumás, Vicente; Sanchez Asín, J. Javier; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 1-24
distinguishing between SEWEs and SEWNEs in drawing valid conclusions concerning any link between entrepreneurship and economic …
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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur : a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship
Block, Jörn; Fisch, Christian; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016
Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively … that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical … innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed. …
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The geography of regional clusters in Romania and their importance for entrepreneurial activities
Reveiu, Adriana - 2012
Regional clusters and entrepreneurship have become very popular subjects in economics, regional science, and economic … most concentrated Romania industries. A second data set, collected as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM …
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