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Entrepreneurs are usually exhorted to attract the best networked investors. We provide further insights into this advice by estimating network effects in the performance of entrepreneurial ventures. We show dimensions that are critical in this estimation, such as the consideration for startups'...
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In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship …
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show that founders' connections to early-stage investors through shared education networks are more important than school …
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-efficacy (ESE) to determine which dimensions of ESE (among management, innovation, marketing, risk-taking and financial control) are …. The results show that the dimensions of ESE related to variables such as management, innovation and marketing have a …
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-immigrant entrepreneurs, in global, high technology industries and integrates the literature on immigrant entrepreneurship, social networks …, and entrepreneurship. By developing and testing a stage-based model of networks and entrepreneurial performance … entrepreneurial social networks in several ways. First, while entrepreneurship scholars have increasingly recognized the need to …
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entrepreneurship as a means to disengage individuals enthralled to ideology and trapped by their own past behavior. I studied two … emancipated 10 ex-terrorists. In this paper, I show how engagement in entrepreneurship can be emancipatory through allowing … connections that provide a platform for building a new future. Importantly, because social entrepreneurship as a form of …
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Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
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This paper distinguishes entrepreneurial network effects from the firm effects and industry effects that have been the focus of much of the literature about the economics of technological change and the economics of industrial organization. A method of identifying entrepreneurial networks is...
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This paper critically examines the role of trust and government agency in the creation of artificial industrial districts by means of 'instructing' clusters of companies in specific geographic areas to form entrepreneurial networks in order to obtain a public subsidy. The paper is based on a...
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There is significant and growing interest in entrepreneurship. Notwithstanding this interest, sizable barriers limit … conceptualizations of “entrepreneurship” have often been used interchangeably. This chapter argues that a potentially fruitful basis for …
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