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Patent as a Motivation of Starting a New Entrepreneurial Activity of High Potential

Goniadis, Iraklis - 2010

This paper entitled “Patent as a Motivation of Starting a New Entrepreneurial Activity of High Potential” based on a …

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Motivation and Satisfaction with Early Medical vs. Surgical Abortion in the Netherlands

Loeber, Olga - 2010

In the Netherlands, most abortions of early pregnancies have been with electric vacuum aspiration (VA). A study was conducted on women’s motivations for choosing surgical (VA) or medical abortion and extent of satisfaction with the method chosen. Information was also collected about the...

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Business Start-Up and Growth Motives of Entrepreneurs : A Case in Bradford, United Kingdom

De Silva, L. Ranmuthumalie - 2010

This study attempts to investigate start-up and growth motives of entrepreneurs who own small and medium scale enterprises in Bradford, UK. In-depth interviews are conducted using “storytelling” approach and narrative analysis is used for data analysis. The Findings reveal that each...

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Adverse Effects of Uniform Written Reporting Standards on Accounting Practice, Education, and Research

Sunder, Shyam - 2010

When transactions have multiple attributes, achieving uniformity in their classification depends on whether similarities or dissimilarities are of interest; uniformity with respect to both is not possible. The pursuit of uniform written standards at the expense of social norms diminishes the...

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Adverse Effects of Uniform Written Reporting Standards on Accounting Practice, Education, and Research

Sunder, Shyam - 2010

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Brain Drain from Turkey : Return Intentions of Skilled Migrants

Gungor, Nil Demet; Tansel, Aysit - 2014

The study estimates an empirical model of return intentions using a dataset compiled from an internet survey of Turkish professionals residing abroad. In the migration literature, wage differentials are often cited as an important factor explaining skilled migration. The findings of our study...

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The Motivation to Become an Entrepreneur

Segal, Gerry; Borgia, Dan; Schoenfeld, Jerry - 2009

Purpose – Since the 1950s, organizational psychology research investigating work-related motivation has progressed from … organizational psychology findings to better understand the motivation to become an entrepreneur. This paper reviews motivation … entrepreneurial motivation. Design/methodology/approach – In an exploratory study, the ability of tolerance for risk, perceived …

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Entrepreneurial and Professional CEOS : Differences in Motive and Responsibility Profile

Papalexandris, Nancy; Apospori, Eleni; Galanaki, Eleanna - 2009

-- Achievement, motivation and responsibility were found to be themost significant discriminating factors between entrepreneurial …

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An Emotional Business : A Guide to Understanding the Motivations of Small Business Decision Takers

Culkin, Nigel; Smith, David - 2009

Motivations of small United Kingdom businesses are discussed in order to dispel myths and misconceptions regarding their operations.The purpose is to dismiss the idea that small businesses are scaled-down versions of their larger counterparts, while highlighting the emotion and complexity that...

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Social Motives in Network Formation : An Experiment

van Dolder, Dennie; Buskens, Vincent - 2017

Literature on network formation typically assumes that people create and remove relations as to maximize their outcome in the network. It is mostly neglected that people might also care about the outcomes of others when creating and removing links. In the current paper, we develop an experiment...

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