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The Entrepreneurial Culture: Guiding Principles of the Self-Employed

Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self- employed rate values higher that aim...

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Nothing Ventured - Nothing Gained? Empirical Evidence on Venture Capital Financing in Switzerland

Hopp, Christian - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2008

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Social entrepreneurship: How intentions to create a social enterprise get formed.

Mair, Johanna; Noboa, Ernesto - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2003

Social entrepreneurship has raised increasing interest among scholars, yet we still know relatively little about the … particular dynamics and processes involved. This paper aims at contributing to the field of social entrepreneurship by clarifying … key elements, providing working definitions, and illuminating the social entrepreneurship process. In the first part of …

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An empirical study of the transition from paid work to self-employment

Velamuri, S. Ramakrishna; Venkataraman, Sankaran - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2004

We explore the relationship between the probability of a transition from paid work to self-employment and three explanatory variables: paid income, predicted income, and income for ability. We use panel data for heads of households from the PSID SRC sample for eight pairs of years. Our results...

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Vidensledelse af sociale innovationer

Tetzschner, Helge - Copenhagen Business School - 1999

I en analyse af relationen mellem kollektivt entrepreneurship og bølger af ko-operativ udvikling blev en konklusion, at … til trods for tendenser til øget betyd-ning af kollektivt entrepreneurship er der i dag ikke tendenser til en ny bølge af …

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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...

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Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving: New Evidence from German Households

Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...

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Ability matching and survival of start-ups

Müller, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...

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Flexibilité et diversification comme réponse au risque: les investissements du patriciat vénitien et de la « Terraferma » aux débuts de l’époque moderne

Lanaro, Paola - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2008

The aim of this paper is to show the strategies of the Venetian Patricians (and those from the Mainland) face to the risk. The diversifications of investments (in all the economic sectors, as agriculture, manufacture, trade, public and private finance) and the flexibility in the domestic and...

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Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?

van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …

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