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Swedish Listed Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Spirit
Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Palmberg, Johanna - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
entrepreneurship in the sense that there is an identifiable person that takes the uninsurable risk in the sense of Knight. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419314
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Quality risk aversion, conjectures, and new product diffusion
Bogliacino, Francesco; Rampa, Giorgio - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 22 (2012) 5, pp. 1081-1115
In this paper, we provide a generalization of the standard models of the diffusion of a new product. Consumers are heterogeneous and risk averse, and the firm is uncertain about the demand curve: both learn from past observations. The attitude towards risk has important effects with regard to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011001838
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The role of entrepreneurship in rising wealth and income inequality
Malm, Arvid; Sanandaji, Tino - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
behind the increase in top incomes. Furthermore, increasing returns to entrepreneurship may be an important yet little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196682
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Business regulation and red tape in the entrepreneurial economy
Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
interrelationship between entrepreneurship and the quality of business regulations. The empirical findings indicate that there is a … positive relationship between entrepreneurship, and the quality of business regulations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626063
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Labor mobility and entrepreneurship: Who do new firms employ?
Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011
Entrepreneurship is often claimed to be important for generating employment. However, the empirical evidence on the … relationship between entrepreneurship is not always convincing. Most of the studies that analyse the relationship between new firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024448
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Revolving doors: entrepreneurial survival and exit
Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 21 (2011) 3, pp. 367-372
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325786
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Born to flip. Exit decisions of entrepreneurial firms in high-tech and low-tech industries
Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 21 (2011) 3, pp. 473-498
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325793
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Creative Destruction and Productivity – entrepreneurship by type, sector and sequence
Andersson, Martin; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011
the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect … sectors appears to be more responsive to regional entrepreneurship, as compared to the productivity of manufacturing firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274562
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How do entrepreneurs know what to do? learning and organizing in new ventures
Aldrich, Howard; Yang, Tiantian - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24 (2014) 1, pp. 59-82
Acquiring the knowledge they need to organize new businesses is a life-long learning process for nascent entrepreneurs, both before and during the organizing process. We argue that creating viable and profitable ventures depends not only on the habits, heuristics, and routines that nascent...
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Four essays on economic evolution: an introduction
Dollimore, Denise; Hodgson, Geoffrey - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24 (2014) 1, pp. 1-10
This essay is in two parts. The first considers the evolution of evolutionary economics from 1982 to 2012. While enormous advances are acknowledged, it is argued that the field is in danger of fragmentation and that there has been relatively little development in its over-arching theoretical...
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