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Are nonprofit entrepreneurs also Jacks-of-all-trades?
Cho, Insoo - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-15
We investigate whether nonprofit and for-profit entrepreneurs share similar observable and unobservable skills. In JLE … 23:649-680, 2005 "Jacks-of-all-Trades" model of entrepreneurship, individuals with more diverse academic and occupational … for-profit and nonprofit venture. Positive correlation in the errors that jointly affect for-profit and nonprofit start …
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Competences necessary for a social entrepreneur : a case study of Latvia
Sannikova, Aija; Vevere, Velga; Titko, Jelena - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 24 (2023) 2, pp. 604-612
Social entrepreneurship as a specific kind of business has been developing in Latvia since 2018, and it is a little … researched field. Achieving the goals of social entrepreneurship is facilitated by several factors, including the competences of … an institutional framework for the social entrepreneurship ecosystem by developing recommendations for cooperation …
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Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? The impacts of skills developed before, during and after college on firm start-ups
Orazem, Peter F.; Jolly, Robert; Yu, Li - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-27
By allowing agents to switch from entrepreneurship to wage work and vice versa over the life cycle, this study proposes …
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Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? : the impacts of skills developed before, during and after college on firm start-ups
Orazem, Peter F.; Jolly, Robert William; Li, Yu - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-27
By allowing agents to switch from entrepreneurship to wage work and vice versa over the life cycle, this study proposes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333984
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Balanced skills and the city: An analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
Being a jack-of-all-trades increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to jack-of-few-trades who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
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Balanced Skills and the City: An Analysis of the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Skill Balance, Thickness and Innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884449
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Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...
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Competition between Nonprofit and For-Profit Firms
Lien, Donald - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 1 (2002) 3, pp. 193-207
This paper considers a nonprofit firm competing against a for-profit firm in a homogenous goods market. Given a … stochastic demand function and an asymmetric tax schedule, we derive Cournot-Nash equilibrium allowing the nonprofit firm to have …
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The relationship between costs and quality in nonprofit nursing homes
Giorgio, Laura Di; Filippini, Massimo; Masiero, Giuliano - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2014
We investigate the relationship between costs and quality in nonprofit nursing homes, a key issue in the present …
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Challenges and new trends for nonprofit accountability in Russia
Jakobson, Lev; Mersiyanova, Irina; Efremov, Sergey - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012
Nonprofit accountability in Russia is becoming increasingly important as nonprofit organizations become more open …
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