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Top management teams and the performance of entrepreneurial firms

Eisenhardt, Kathleen - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 805-816

This article examines why some entrepreneurial firms succeed while others do not. The focal explanation is top management teams, including several studies that address when and how top management teams are likely to influence entrepreneurial firm performance. There are several insights. First,...

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Progressive taxes and firm births

Bacher, Hans; Brülhart, Marius - In: International Tax and Public Finance 20 (2013) 1, pp. 129-168

Tax reform proposals in the spirit of the “flat tax” model typically aim to reduce three parameters: the average tax burden, the progressivity of the tax schedule, and the complexity of the tax code. We explore the implications of changes in these parameters for entrepreneurial activity,...

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Taking the Plunge: Teaching the Microeconomics of Entrepreneurship

Stull, William - In: International Advances in Economic Research 20 (2014) 2, pp. 139-150

Despite the importance of entrepreneurship in market economies, it is seldom given extensive coverage in undergraduate … analysis of the choice between paid employment and entrepreneurship that is based on utility maximization and takes into …

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Entrepreneurship and Independent Professionals: Social and Economic Logics

Bögenhold, Dieter; Heinonen, Jarna; Akola, Elisa - In: International Advances in Economic Research 20 (2014) 3, pp. 295-310

This study discusses stereotypes of entrepreneurship by looking at the overlapping areas of entrepreneurship, self … and artists at the blurred boundaries between waged work and entrepreneurship. Findings reveal that the professions are … clearly different and the manifestations of entrepreneurship vary, reflecting the work and the labor market situation within …

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Conscious Enterprise Emergence: Shared Value Creation Through Expanded Conscious Awareness

Pavlovich, Kathryn; Corner, Patricia - In: Journal of Business Ethics 121 (2014) 3, pp. 341-351

We propose conscious awareness as a mechanism for creating “shared value”; a form of value that Porter describes as putting social and community needs before profit. We explore the mechanism empirically in an entrepreneurial context and find that spiritual practices increase conscious...

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The Natural Link Between Virtue Ethics and Political Virtue: The Morality of the Market

Aranzadi, Javier - In: Journal of Business Ethics 118 (2013) 3, pp. 487-496

transmitted culturally. In that moment entrepreneurship emerges, the creative tension that expands, maintains, or diminishes the …

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Institutionalizing Ethics in Institutional Voids: Building Positive Ethical Strength to Serve Women Microfinance Borrowers in Negative Contexts

Chakrabarty, Subrata; Bass, A. - In: Journal of Business Ethics 119 (2014) 4, pp. 529-542

This study examines whether microfinance institutions (MFIs) that serve women borrowers at the base of the economic pyramid are likely to adopt a written code of positive organizational ethics (POE). Using econometric analysis of operational and economic data of a sample of MFIs from across the...

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Earnings Effects of Entrepreneurial Experience: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Campbell, Benjamin A. - In: Management Science 59 (2013) 2, pp. 286-304

entrepreneurship are not limited to just the rewards available inside entrepreneurial firms. <i>This paper was accepted by Lee Fleming …, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …

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Stars and Misfits: Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions

Åstebro, Thomas; Chen, Jing; Thompson, Peter - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 11, pp. 1999-2017

model. <i>This paper was accepted by Lee Fleming, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …

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Network Progeny? Prefounding Social Ties and the Success of New Entrants

Roberts, Peter W.; Sterling, Adina D. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 7, pp. 1292-1304

Entrepreneurs that were employed by successful industry incumbents prior to founding tend to confer advantages on their new organizations. We propose and then demonstrate a similar "network progeny" effect rooted in the social relationships that form among entrepreneurs. Our analysis of new...

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