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Temporal focus and entrepreneurial orientation of solo self-employed workers

Mukerjee, Jinia; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid - 2024

The temporal dimensions of managerial behavior and their impact on organizational outcomes have garnered increasing attention in the literature. Given the significant role of managers' time perception in shaping a firm's strategic direction, this study contributes by examining the relationship...

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Personality and entrepreneurship

Kritikos, Alexander - 2022

into entrepreneurship. Further, entrepreneurs are more likely to hire, the higher they score in risk tolerance, trust … effects" are found, explaining why some entrepreneurs subsequently exit again the market. …

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic background of these individuals, their education,...

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

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Testing the ‘Residential Rootedness' - Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja - 2012

entrepreneurs are ‘rooted' in place. This paper tests the ‘residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for …

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Self-employment as proxy for entrepreneurship : empirical caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self-employment, making it a somewhat dubious proxy....

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Entrepreneurship in India : the question of occupational transition

Monsen, Erik; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Dienes, Christian - 2010

Occupational transition from salaried to self-employment is an important issue in developed economies, but is even more critical in emerging economies, as individuals' occupational choices can drive economic development. Using data on 3637 individuals from India, we examine the effect of...

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio-economic background of these individuals, their...

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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten van - 2011

entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for …

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