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Fostering a creative economy to drive Korean growth
Jones, Randall Sidney; Kim, Myungkyoo - 2014
-and-acquisition market and foster entrepreneurship. A creative economy also depends on making SMEs, which account for 87% of employment, more …
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Credit to Women Entrepreneurs : The Curse of the Trustworthier Sex
Agier, Isabelle - 2011
Women entrepreneurs are known not only to reimburse loans swifter than men, but also to receive smaller loans. However, on average women have smaller-scope business projects and are poorer than men. A deeper investigation is thus required in order to assess the existence of gender discrimination...
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Genome-Wide Association Studies and the Genetics of Entrepreneurship
van der Loos, Matthijs J. H. M. - 2011
We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117187
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Expectancy Theory and Nascent Entrepreneurship
Renko, Maija - 2011
Motivation is an important factor that distinguishes those nascent entrepreneurs who make progress towards an operating venture from those who do not. Based on Vroom's (Work and motivation, 1964) expectancy theory, we predict that startup-specific instrumentality, valence and expectancy are key...
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276
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Networks and Corporate Entrepreneurship : A Comparative Case Study on Family Business in Catalonia
Toledano, Nuria - 2011
collective entrepreneurship, there are similarities reflecting the networks status of both cases. In contrast, there are some … variations concerning the development of collective entrepreneurship within the businesses which affect the type of corporate … entrepreneurship (CE) activities developed by the firms.Research limitations/implications – By using a case study approach, it is hard …
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Latin American Middle-Class Entrepreneurs and Their Firms : A Regional View and International Comparison
Kantis, Hugo - 2012
Based on a cross-country comparison of dynamic new firms, this paper attempts to characterize Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs and their firms. In general, Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs tend to face more difficult conditions in terms of resources and skills acquisition than...
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Middle-Class Entrepreneurship and the Effect of Social Capital
Ordenana, Xavier - 2012
This paper surveys Ecuadorian entrepreneurs to ascertain the differences between middle-class and upper-class entrepreneurs and identify the variables associated with the “success” of a business. The paper also explores the variables that can determine the probability of upward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099936
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Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Ecuador : A Pseudo-Panel Approach
Ordenana, Xavier - 2012
Does entrepreneurship contribute to improving social mobility in Ecuador? This paper constructs a pseudo-panel to … analyze the dynamic effect of entrepreneurship on Ecuadorian household incomes during the period 2002-2010. Using three … estimation scenarios, the paper finds a significant level of unconditional mobility and an important effect of entrepreneurship …
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