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The entrepreneurial culture: guiding principles of the self-employed

Noseleit, Florian - 2008

What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self-employed rate values higher that aim...

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The shadows of the past: how implicit institutions influence entrepreneurship

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...

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Social capital and innovation: Can social trust explain the technological innovation of the high-performing East Asian eonomies?

Cho, Seo-Young - 2018

The economic success and innovative outcomes of the high performing East Asian countries, albeit often characterized as low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that...

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Unflat Ontology: Essay on the Poverty of Democratic Materialism

Kvachev, Vadim - In: Stasis 9 (2020) 1, July, pp. 13-34

The paper is dedicated to the problem of flat ontology in philosophy and its relation to the practice in economy. The author argues that flat economy is based on a marginal utility theory of value and presents hierarchical value chains with concentration of power-capital as if they were flat and...

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Evaluation with dynamic reference: Sustainable investment

Vinokur, Leon - 2009

The Prospect Theory proposes to assess outcomes relative to a reference point (or benchmark). Although the literature recognises the relevance of dynamic benchmarks, most of the applications of Prospect Theory employ static reference points (or a status quo). This paper aims to develop a...

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Strong subjectivism in the Marxian theory of exploitation: A critique

Veneziani, Roberto; Yoshihara, Naoki - 2009

This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo ([7]), in the context of general convex economies with heterogeneous agents. It is proved that the Fundamental Marxian Theorem is not preserved in his subjectivist approach,...

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What is a self-made expat? Self-disclosures of self-initiated expatriates

Roth, Steffen; Dana, Léo-Paul - 2015

The label expatriates is increasingly used by and applied to a growing number of persons who do not fit classical concepts of company-driven expatriation. While relevant research is engaged in establishing interaction with smaller samples of self- initiated expatriates, the present article...

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Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E. - In: Small Business Economics 60 (2022) 4, pp. 1593-1612

Narrative entrepreneurship is the study of the spread and dynamics of popular narratives and stories focusing on the … field of entrepreneurship should be expanded to include serious quantitative study of changing popular narratives (theory … development, experiments and econometric regressions). Narrative entrepreneurship is not only a product of reverse causality, from …

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The performance effects of corporate venture capital: a meta-analysis

Haslanger, Patrick; Lehmann, Erik E.; Seitz, Nikolaus - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 48 (2022) 6, pp. 2132-2160

The effect of corporate venture capital (CVC) investments is far from being conclusively discussed in literature. Although the expected benefits of CVCs for corporations and start-ups are undisputed, empirical evidence is mixed. We combine and analyze the results of 32 CVC studies, including...

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Entrepreneurship in family firms: an updated bibliometric overview

Anwar, Muhammad; Clauss, Thomas; Meyer, Natanya - In: Review of Managerial Science 18 (2023) 2, pp. 539-575

Research on entrepreneurship in family firms has grown exponentially over the past two decades. Due to the various … study, we address this gap by conducting an updated bibliometric analysis of the research on entrepreneurship in family … co-citation analysis clustering the intellectual foundations of the research on entrepreneurship in family firms. Second …

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