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We document that the lack of diverse employees in the investment sector does not likely result from a shortage of talented diverse candidates graduating from UK universities. We compare occupations in investment management to other occupations that require similar skills and backgrounds (which...
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countries is favourable for entrepreneurship and job creation. Building on existing, yet disjointed theories on diversity, the … paper provides insights as to why different types of diversity may have different effects on entrepreneurship. We test our … predictions using multilevel modelling and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey of over 1.5 million people across 88 …
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differences. The study found that the non-Tiv group is significantly more inclined to entrepreneurship than the Tiv ethnic group …
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We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by …, entrepreneurship has been an avenue out of poverty, and entrepreneurship has been promoted as a way to decrease welfare and …
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We explore whether financial access explains persistent gender and racial imbalance in entrepreneurship. The 1979 NLSY … for young people to attempt entrepreneurship. We find that the movement away from local finance supported new entry by … African American men into entrepreneurship, but not by women of any race. We show that financial access is an important …
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Persistence of entrepreneurship over longer periods of time could indicate a culture of entrepreneurship among the … World War II, the relationship between historical and current levels of entrepreneurship is not significant. Persistence of … entrepreneurship is related to the historical success of regions, which we capture by the pre-war level of and self-employment in …
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that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …
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compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …
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combinations of leadership factors impact entrepreneurship in both its launch and consolidation phases. Two relational models are … on the entrepreneurship consolidation stage. Utilising data from 50 countries of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a … that the use of some leadership capabilities has an unequal influence on entrepreneurship during its life cycle. This study …
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Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …
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