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Personal, Household and Business Environmental Determinants of Entrepreneurship

Krasniqi, Besnik - 2014

This paper explores the personal, household and business environmental determinants of entrepreneurship in Kosova using … entrepreneurship behaviour of population while we find a weak positive effect of age and no significant effect of marital status … growing sectors such as construction together with regions in which entrepreneurship is more developed have significant …

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Policy and Regulatory Changes for a Successful Startup Revolution : Experiences from the Startup Action Plan in India

Singh, Vijay Kumar - 2020

In January 2016, the Government of India launched the Startup India initiative, which has transformed the way in which the markets, potential entrepreneurs, and investors view startups. This transformation included a slew of policy measures intended to promote a startup culture and allow younger...

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs : New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...

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Enterprise Formation and Labor Market Institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2021

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

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The growth and human capital atructure of new firms over the business cycle

Brixy, Udo; Murmann, Martin - 2016

employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We …

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The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2008

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...

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Predicting Entrepreneurial Behaviour : A Test of the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Kautonen, Teemu; Gelderen, Marco van; Tornikoski, Erno T. - 2013

This article contributes to the occupational choice literature pertaining to entrepreneurship by applying the Theory of … to understand the emergence of complex economic behaviour such as entrepreneurship prior to the onset of any observable …

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The Influence of Roles and Identities on Female Entrepreneurial Agency

Madsen, Mona Toft; Neergaard, Helle; Ulhøi, John P. - 2009

Research suggests that barriers and constraints encountered by women are gender-specific, and that women are subject to discriminatory practices. However, by focusing on what women are prevented from doing, much research portrays women as victims of circumstance rather than as individuals with...

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Entrepreneurial Image, Gender, and the Formation of New Ventures

Werner, Arndt; Kay, Rosemarie - 2009

The decision to become an entrepreneur does not only have economic determinants. Using a unique data set of individuals who visited business start-up exhibitions and applying logit and probit techniques we show that entrepreneurial self-perception has a strong impact on entrepreneurial activity...

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Kauffman Dissertation Executive Summary : How Entrepreneurial Do You Choose to Be? Talent, Risk Attitudes, Overconfidence and Self-Selection into Entrepreneurship

Nguyen-Chyung, Amy - 2016

rather than a binary employment-entrepreneurship decision and explores how cognitive determinants influence these choices. I … on a self-employment definition of entrepreneurship or on uni-dimensional drivers has obscured these more complex choices …

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