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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Praag, C.M. van; Parker, S.C. - 2004
To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the time of inception and by the business founder's investment in human capital? We attempt to answer this question taking into account the potential endogeneity of human and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460015
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Education and Entrepreneurship in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-analysis
Sluis, J. vander; Praag, C.M. van; Vijverberg, W. - 2004
This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … selection and performance. We first describe the main effects found in the current entrepreneurship literature. We then explain … conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, we find that the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460016
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Three Essays on Self-Employment Transitions, Organizational Capital, and Firm Formation
Deli, Fatma - 2011
This dissertation explores how economic, organizational, and personal factors affect self-employment transitions, occupational decisions, and firm formation activities of individuals at different positions in the skill distribution. The first essay of my dissertation studies how local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460574
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Three Essays on Firm Behavior and Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslav Republics.
Koman, Matjaz - 2009
and opportunities and can therefore serve neither as a potential resource for the future development of entrepreneurship … and entrepreneurship in selected former Yugoslav countries. The goal was to determine whether firms’ objective remains the … firms, entrepreneurship, and self-employment.The answers and insights provided by these three essays reveal that merely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476543
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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2003
Using data from the confidential and restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) Survey, we provide some suggestive evidence on the causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background affects small business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444181
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A "ruggedised" method for measuring entrepreneurial activity in developing countries
Frederick, Howard - 2010
In July 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey in the Kingdom of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483783
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Local ontologies and epistemologies of leadership in the Rosebank business precinct of Auckland, New Zealand
du Plessis, Andries J.; Frederick, Howard - 2010
development in Rosebank. We conducted face-to-face interviews with about one-fifth of Rosebank companies using a 36-question …, education and development; recruitment; and where leaders can recruit the right people. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483781
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DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL TOURISM THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP
SURUGIU, Camelia - 2009
The present paper is addressing the issue of entrepreneurship in rural tourism, identifying its potential to stimulate … essential. The Romanian entrepreneurship began to revive after 1989, the efforts initially being shy and the researches carried …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015336793
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250