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La teoria economica del fattore imprenditoriale. Note a margine di alcune letture suggerite - The economic theory of the entrepreneurial factor. Notes on a small reading list
Florio, Massimo - Centre for Industrial Studies (CSIL) - 2010
Austrian tradition. The paper observes that there are different forms of entrepreneurship and that realism is needed to … understand the social availability of entrepreneurship across types of organisations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690080
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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 self-employment varies considerably across professions, we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690101
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Entrepreneurship and the Hidden Economy: an Extended Matching Model
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2009
This paper develops a standard matching model to address the problem of the hidden sector (including non-registered firms but producing for legal markets), as it is characterised in Italy, i.e. framed in a rather advanced economic and institutional setting, but also linked to the socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690458
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On the Sources of Entrepreneurial Talent: Tacit vs. codified knowledge
Federici, Daniela; Ferrante, Francesco; Vistocco, Domenico - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2008
There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent lies in the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. By determining the nature of the discovery and exploitation processes, institutions and technology play an essential role in shaping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690471
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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction.
Bianchi, Milo - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2012
This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non- monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690920
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Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Developmental State: Lessons from the Advanced Economies
Lazonick, William - eSocialSciences - 2010
A basic intellectual challenge for those concerned with the poverty of nations is to come to grips with the nature and causes of the wealth of the world’s wealthier nations. One might then be in a position to inform the poorer nations how they might achieve similar outcomes. This paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690932
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Entrepreneurship as renewal in mature industries
Cassia, Lucio; Fattore, Michael; Paleari, Stefano - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Università … - 2006
Entrepreneurship broadly covers different areas because it is a pervasive phenomenon. We here analyze the role of … entrepreneurship in mature industries, where strategic change may be necessary for avoiding decline. Firstly, mature industries are … embedded with a potential renewed role for entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the resource-based view may be employed as a tool of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862639
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The Entrepreneurial Facets as Precursor to Vietnam’s Economic Renovation in 1986
Vuong, Quan Hoang; Dam, Van Nhue; van Houtte, Daniel; … - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
In this research, we aim to develop a conceptual framework to assess the entrepreneurial properties of the Vietnamese reform, known as Doi Moi, even before the kickoff of Doi Moi policy itself. We argued that unlike many other scholars’ assertion, economic crisis and harsh realities were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863003
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AMONG RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NORWAY AND THEIR STAY-AT-HOME PEERS
VINOGRADOV, EVGUENI; GABELKO, MARIA - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 15 (2010) 04, pp. 461-479
relatively large amount of specific human capital, social capital and self-confidence relevant for entrepreneurship. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863943
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AN EXAMINATION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENT ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS BY TYPE OF VENTURE
CAREY, THOMAS A.; FLANAGAN, DAVID J.; PALMER, TIMOTHY B. - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 15 (2010) 04, pp. 503-517
of great interest to entrepreneurship researchers/educators. Past literature looks at a variety of important motivators … that impact student intentions toward entrepreneurship but has tended to view entrepreneurial intentions as a homogeneous … behavior. Implications and ideas for future research and entrepreneurship education are discussed. …
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