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Creating Strategic Advantage through Entrepreneurial Governance in New Ventures

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E.; Plummer, Lawrence A. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governance and corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managers stock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm. This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...

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A Physician With A Soul Of A Cook? Entrepreneurial Personality Across Occupations

Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

There is a debate in the literature backed by ambiguous empirical evidence whether personality is useful at predicting entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the...

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Stepping Forward: Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...

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Occupational Choice and Self-Employment - Are They Related?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge …. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent … empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the knowledge filter than are incumbent firms …

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically …-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms … that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the …

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