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The Swedish Corporate Control Model: Convergence, Persistence or Decline?

Henrekson, Magnus; Jakobsson, Ulf - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

This paper explores the effects of deregulation and globalization on the dominant mode of corporate governance in Swedish public firms. The effects are multidimensional—the direction of change in corporate governance cannot be determined by simply examining whether a convergence towards the...

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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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And the Winner Is--Acquired: Entrepreneurship as a Contest with Acquisition as the Prize

Henkel, Joachim; Rønde, Thomas; Wagner, Marcus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

R&D incentives of new entrants to a market may be shaped by the prospects of being acquired by an incumbent. In this paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage, firms compete to develop innovations of high quality. They...

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“ATTRACTIVENESS” VERSUS “CONSTRAIN” IN SELF-EMPLOYMENT OPTION IN A CERTAIN FIELD FOR MANAGER WOMEN OF THEIR OWN BUSINESS IN THE WEST OF ROMANIA

Anca, Dodescu - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 46-52

Starting from the way in which women, generally speaking, understand entrepreneurship – as a choice or as a necessity … factors of the feminine entrepreneurship, respective activity fields preferred by women for self-employment. The second part …, professional studies and activity fields in the case of feminine entrepreneurship in the West of Romania, results of AntrES project …

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ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATIONS: ARE WOMEN DRIVEN BY DIFFERENT MOTIVATORS THAN MEN? (I – THE LITERATURE)

Badulescu, Alina - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 234-241

The present article has the goal to reveal the (eventually) differences between entrepreneurial motivations between men and women, in the case of EU and Romania. In the first part, we make a brief research into the literature related to this subject, and in the second part we shall reveal the...

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FEMININE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A RESEARCH THEME. SOME CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE WAY OF INITIATING A BUSINESS BY THE ENTREPRENEUR WOMEN IN THE WEST OF ROMANIA

Ioana, Pop Cohut - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 229-233

The present paper aims an incursion in the concern for researches in the field of feminine entrepreneurship – as a … research theme, the study directions of the feminine entrepreneurship, on the basis of the special literature in the field. The … applicative part of the paper refers to the research taken in the field of feminine entrepreneurship in Romania, through the …

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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China

Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2010

This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...

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Entrepreneurship as a process of collective exploration

Doganova, Liliana - HAL - 2009

entrepreneurship, and provides detailed examination of a case study on a French academic spin-off. …

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What do business models do? Narratives, calculation and market exploration

Doganova, Liliana; Eyquem-Renault, Marie - HAL - 2009

Building on a case study of an entrepreneurial venture, we investigate the role played by business models in the innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we examine them as market devices, focusing on their...

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