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Key success factors and challenges in harnessing the power of women entrepreneurs

Hasliza Hassan; Mahdee, Junainah; Muhammad Sabbir Rahman; … - In: World review of entrepreneurship, management and … 13 (2017) 4, pp. 450-467

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Size matters : entrepreneurial entry and government

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of …

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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient suggests a positive linear link between the size of...

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For benevolence and for self-interest : social and commercial entrepreneurial activity across nations

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stephan, Ute - 2011

We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990) productive entrepreneurship and that it will...

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Perceptions, expectations, and entrepreneurship : the role of extreme events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - 2010

- such as fear of failure in starting a business venture, whether individuals expect that good opportunities are likely to … have a positive and significant impact on business creation, Natural Disasters have a positive and negative impact on … extreme events on perception variables such as Fear of Failure, Expected Business Opportunities, and Expected Level of …

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"Romanticizing penniless entrepreneurs?" : the relationship between start-ups and human wellbeing across countries

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi M., Oscar - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...

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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship : blessing or curse?

Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul … - 2013

This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...

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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...

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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

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Are senior entrepreneurs happier than who? : the role of income and health

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023

We propose an extension of the standard occupational choice model to analyze the life satisfaction of senior entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status as main factors that shape the relationship between...

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