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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …

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Does Quality Make a Difference?: Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. …

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Communication matters – network constellations in entrepreneurship

Euler, Mark; Vollmar, Bernhard H.; Kraus, Sascha - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 3, pp. 283-301

This paper investigates the role of communication within network constellations in entrepreneurship research. To become …

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Entrepreneurial business ethics: a special case or business as usual?

Cordeiro, William P. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 3, pp. 241-252

"Entrepreneurs pursue opportunities [for business success] without regard to resources currently under [their] control". Often cited as primary agents of economic growth, entrepreneurs have been extensively analysed. Many articles address the personal traits and behaviours of entrepreneurs, the...

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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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Qualitative research in SMEs and entrepreneurship: a literature review of case study research

Piperopoulos, Panagiotis - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 6, pp. 494-510

The purpose of this paper is to shed more light on the value of qualitative research methods as a heuristic research tool that could provide a better understanding of the small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the basic/key role played by the owner/manager/entrepreneur in the...

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Is cluster development an explanatory factor of increased levels of FDI? Evidence from the case of Bulgaria

Salavrakos, Ioannis-Dionysios; Georgieva, Zornitsa Vasileva - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 6, pp. 461-478

international production. The results obtained may add another perspective on future development of entrepreneurship in Bulgaria and …

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Strategic use of e-learning for human resource training

Capece, Guendalina; Gitto, Simone; Campisi, Domenico - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 1 (2009) 3, pp. 369-380

Nowadays, in both blended and separate channels, the emerging information technology enables curricula to be tailored to the needs of those participating in postgraduate programmes by offering more 'individual-centred education'. This article discusses one particular entrepreneurial attempt to...

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Challenges to research on entrepreneurial networking in SMEs

O'Neill, Charles - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 1 (2009) 4, pp. 467-478

Research on entrepreneurial networking could be regarded as an area of entrepreneurship where research has developed at … a much lower pace than in entrepreneurship in general. The reasons for this phenomenon could be that researchers either … (SMEs) in particular will be addressed within the context of a literature review of the status of the entrepreneurship …

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