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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729197
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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818438
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Employee Compensation in Entrepreneurial Companies
Bengtsson, Ola; Hand, John R. M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818473
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The Dynamics of Supply and Economic Growth: How Industrial Knowledge Accumulation Drives a Path Dependent Economic Process
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684531
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Competence in Health Care - An Industrial Systems Analysis Using Competence Bloc Theory to Compare European and US Health Care
Eliasson, Gunnar; Eliasson, Åsa - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
), discouraging innovative product competition and entrepreneurship. The larger part of cost escalation in US health care can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642395
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Israel M. Kirzner: An Outstanding Austrian Contributor to the Economics of Entrepreneurship
Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus; Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In … this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how … crucial role of entrepreneurship and the individual entrepreneur has become visible to a much broader audience. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645371