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"This paper focuses on the question of whether improving the competence of new business founders through programs that offer external expertise enhances the duration of self-employment. In our analysis, we focus on three different programs that are provided along with a financial subsidy and...
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"Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we investigate differences in the unexplained gender pay gap between owner-run and manager-run firms. We hypothesise that owner-managers and hired managers differ in their discretion to engage in profit-reducing taste discrimination...
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In den letzten Jahren ist in Forschung und Praxis ein zunehmendes Interesse an unternehmerisch orientierten MitarbeiterInnen, sogenannten IntrapreneurInnen, zu beobachten. Der vorliegende Artikel beschreibt ein Modell fuer Intrapreneurship in der beruflichen Erstausbildung (Lehre), das empirisch...
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of these findings for innovation management and strategy, entrepreneurship, and university technology commercialization …
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It is suggested that the recognition of new business opportunities often involves pattern recognition--the cognitive process through which individuals identify meaningful patterns in complex arrays of events or trends. Basic research on pattern recognition indicates that cognitive frameworks...
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model. The results have implications for national and regional entrepreneurship policy because they reveal a clear … distinction between the factors governing interest in entrepreneurship and those influencing start-up from within the interested …
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Aoyama Y. Entrepreneurship and regional culture: the case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan, Regional Studies. Successful … entrepreneurship today must respond to the demands from global market forces. Yet, simultaneously, entrepreneurs must also respond to … plays an important role in shaping entrepreneurship, even in a new economic sector. By taking two 'entrepreneurial regions …
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Cressy (2000) argues that the positive correlation between assets and the rate of business startups is due to DARA preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence, and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA.
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Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, we show that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business. Although religious diversity also correlates with a higher start-up probability (following trial), this effect is driven by access to...
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Asia have largely focused on subsistence entrepreneurship rather than on creating ventures that empower them to break out … entrepreneur’s standard of living. This article initially reviews what we know about entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty in …, “Asia & Poverty: Closing the Great Divide through Entrepreneurship & Innovation,” on new approaches to entrepreneurship to …
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