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The Skill Balancing Act: Determinants of and Returns to Balanced Skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131067
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How much of a socialist legacy? The reemergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Rusakova, Alina; … - 2012
The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291841
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The skill balancing act: Determinants of and returns to balanced skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - 2011
Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281651
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Balanced skills and the city: An analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
Being a jack-of-all-trades increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to jack-of-few-trades who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323899