Search Results - subject:"ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY"

An examination of the relationship between corruption and total entrepreneurial activity

Wu, Sibin; Liang, Xin - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 4, pp. 478-489

entrepreneurial activity. Using data collected through Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), CIA's World Factbook and the 1997 … Transparency International, we found that overall corruption and total entrepreneurial activity (TEA) are negatively related, that … is, the more corrupted, the less entrepreneurial activity. However, we argued that the relationship between the two …

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Relación entre los factores institucionales y el emprendimiento: análisis mediante técnicas cuantitativas || Relationship between Institutional Factors and Entrepreneurship: A Quantitative Analysis

Salmerón Gómez, Román; Gómez Haro, Samuel - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 13 (2012) 1, pp. 54-72

La mayoría de los trabajos publicados sobre la relación entre los factores institucionales y emprendedores adolecen de un adecuado estudio empírico. Debido a la importancia que ha adquirido en los últimos años el entorno institucional, consideramos necesario un análisis riguroso mediante...

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Innovation, entrepreneurial activity and competitiveness at a sub-national level

González-Pernía, José; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki; … - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 561-574

The capability to generate new knowledge and to create new firms differs across regions. Our study is an attempt to test the extent to which differences in such capabilities are associated with regional competitiveness. Using data from Spanish NUTS2 regions for the period 2000–2004, our...

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Economic freedom and cross-border venture capital performance

Wang, Lanfang; Wang, Susheng - In: Journal of Empirical Finance 19 (2012) 1, pp. 26-50

We investigate the determinants of cross-border venture capital (VC) performance using a large sample of 10,205 cross-border VC investments by 1906 foreign VC firms (VCs) in 6535 domestic portfolio companies. We focus on the impact of a domestic country's economic freedom on the performance of...

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Economic freedom and cross-border venture capital performance

Wang, Lanfang; Wang, Susheng - In: Journal of empirical finance 19 (2012) 1, pp. 26-50

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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries

Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

The paper reviews the “stylized facts” on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP since 1970. The data show that the growth...

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A Methodological Problem Associated with Researching Women Entrepreneurs

Avolio, Beatrice E. - In: Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (2011), pp. 9-25

This article highlights one of the most significant methodological problems of researching women entrepreneurs and understanding the female entrepreneurial experience, which is related to the definition of what is a women entrepreneur. The article outlines the state of research on women...

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Incubación de empresas y soft landing empresarial en los países social mediterráneos

Fernández Fernández, María Teresa; Blanco Jiménez, … - In: Información comercial española : ICE : revista de … 861 (2011), pp. 161-174

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ENTREPRENEURIAL AND REGIONAL GROWTH ACTIVITY IN FINLAND

TOHMO, T.; LITTUNEN, H.; STORHAMMAR, E. - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 18 (2010) 02, pp. 205-228

spillovers, measures of entrepreneurial activity should be linked positively to regional growth performance. In Schumpeterian … and growth. In this study, we simultaneously examine the regional entrepreneurial activity and regional growth activity in … Finland. A further aim of the study was to find out if entrepreneurial activity and growth activity also play a …

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Cross-countries differences in entrepreneurial processes: the case of Slovenia and Croatia in international context

Pusnik, Ksenja; Tajnikar, Maks - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 2 (2010) 4, pp. 382-399

entrepreneurial activity originates in three waves: the wave of objective ability, need and opportunity for entrepreneurship, the wave … motivation, which later results in entrepreneurial activity. The aim of this paper is to investigate how 'efficient' were the … reflected in entrepreneurial activity. …

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