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When to Start a New Firm?: Modelling the Timing of Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs
Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting a new firm. We integrate insights from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973333
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Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation
Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001320
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Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis
Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
Building on a Lewis-type model of structural change and entrepreneurship we show how a global economic crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493701
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Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into … entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507949
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Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: Towards A General Theory of Start-Ups
Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
Start-ups of new firms are important for economic growth. However, start-up rates differ significantly between countries and within regions of the same country. A large empirical literature studies the reasons for this and attempts to identify the regional determinants of start-ups. In contrast,...
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