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phenomenon of entrepreneurship. We explore how the most economic of human behaviours, entrepreneurship, came to be largely …
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This study uses detailed longitudinal matched employer–employee data to examine the impact of entrepreneurial experience on job assignments, careers, and wages. The results suggest that there are significant differences in career mobility between former business owners and workers who were...
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Do potential entrepreneurs exploit welfare-destroying opportunities as much as they exploit welfare …-enhancing opportunities as it is assumed in several normative models? Do we need to prevent potential entrepreneurs from being destructive or … who consider entrepreneurship as a future occupation invest significantly less than others in destructive opportunities …
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We test the hypothesis that ownership of a firm does not affect the firm's ability to seize market opportunities once decisions about productive structure are taken into account. By grouping firms in size clusters having a similar distance between the actual and the optimal size, we assess how...
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that even when entrepreneurship is valued, entrepreneurs may often not match their ideas with suitable opportunities …We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into …
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This paper discusses the impact of entrepreneurs in creating a district and an ethnic community. More particularly, the … that founded the Portuguese district? The fundamental question is to determine whether the entrepreneurs are social and … an ethnic district, the importance of the entrepreneurs and their influence on the social and economical changes that we …
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quantitative identification of cause-effect relationships between entrepreneurship and innovation results. …
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this article we aim to offer an analysis of perceptions of entrepreneurship of potential entrepreneurs, based on the … interpretation of the results of a primary research regarding entrepreneurship developed in April 2012. The results of the survey … show that Romanian potential entrepreneurs are mostly motivated to open a business by the financial security, profit …
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We examine the efficacy of providing self-employment training to unemployed and other individuals interested in self-employment using data from Project GATE. This experimental design program offered self-employment training services to a random sample of individuals who expressed a strong...
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During the past decade, entrepreneurship in the healthcare sector has become increasingly important. The aging society …, entrepreneurship is being stimulated, yet little is known about intra-hospital dynamics leading to entrepreneurial behavior. …
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