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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownershiop across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across economically developed nations have attracted the attentiion of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural rather than economic influences are assumed to play a decisive role. This paper deals with the influence of cutlural...
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Linking Business Ownership and Perceived Administrative Complexity: An Empirical Analysis of 18 OECD Countries
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Stunnenberg, Viktor - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
Administrative burdens are known to be a major business constraint for incumbent SMEs in modern economies. Far less is known about the influence of these burdens on the startup of new firms. The current paper examines to what extent perceived administrative complexity related to starting a new...
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The Division of Ownership in New Ventures
Demougin, Dominique; Fabel, Oliver - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006
The current study investigates a tripartite incentive contract between an innovator supplying an intellectual asset, a professional assigned to productive tasks, and a consulting firm specializing in matching ideas and professionalskills. A rather simple pure tripartite partnership implements...
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Family Management, Family Ownership and Downsizing: Evidence from S&P 500 Firms
Block, Jörn Hendrich - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008
Little is known about the relationship between family firms and their employees. This paper aims to close this gap. We distinguish between family management and family ownership as two dimensions of family firms and analyze their respective influence on downsizing. Our findings show that family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860572
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Post-Materialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations
Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Roy - 2005
The study of predictors of entrepreneurial activity at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. However, the relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other forces such as institutional and/or cultural factors are at play....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864996
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Early-stage entrepreneurial activity : an explanatory model for cross-country comparisons
Chepurenko, A.; Gabelko, M.; Obraztsova, O. - 2011
provided by a lot of studies, are not statistically significant for younger market systems and entrepreneurship in transitional … economies. However, comparing Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data with the scope of official statistics provides a deeper … foresee future tendencies of TEA - not only for GEM participating countries. -- Early-Stage Entrepreneurship ; Start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419667
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COMPENDIA: Harmonizing business ownership data across countries and over time
van Stel, André J. - 2005
called the business ownership rate of a country. The data set is called COMPENDIA, which means COMParative ENtrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276939
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COMPENDIA: Harmonizing business ownership data across countries and over time
Stel, Andre van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
called the business ownership rate of a country. The data set is called COMPENDIA, which means COMParative ENtrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824119
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Designing composite entrepreneurship indicators: An application using consensus PCA
Avanzini, Diego B. - 2009
Existing indicators of entrepreneurial activity (such as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Entrepreneurship … Barometer, FORA's Entrepreneurship Index, OECD and Economic Commission's sets of indicators, among others) and several variables … that have been considered good proxies for entrepreneurship during the last decades seem to be unsuitable to capture the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273513
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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …
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