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Savings of Entrepreneurs [PDF]

open access: possible, 2003
Previous work on entrepreneurship and wealth has documented that entrepreneurial households are wealthier and have higher wealth mobility. However, the literature has not paid attention to the components of wealth change. Furthermore, endogeneity problems in the measurement of the interaction between saving rates and entrepreneurship are not well ...
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Entrepreneurs’ Responses to Crime-Entrepreneurs in Mexico

2015
Organized crime and violence are among the most difficult challenges faced by entrepreneurs in Latin America (Latinobarometro, 2013). Entrepreneurs who develop new products, services and techniques (Smith, 2009) are confronted by crime-entrepreneurs (van Duyne, 1999), or violent entrepreneurs, in other words “groups and organizations that specialize in
Ramirez, Jacobo   +2 more
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Becoming an Entrepreneur [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates problems of selection bias (on observable and ...
Hugo Ñopo, Patricio Valenzuela
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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and Their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2007
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration.
Joern Block, Philipp Sandner
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The Entrepreneur: The Firm

Journal of Political Economy, 1944
E term "entrepreneur" as ordinarily employed in economic liter> ature is a holdover from the classical era of political economy, when individual proprietorships and partnerships were predominant and when those who possessed the ownership equities in corporations were supposed to exercise effective decision-making power.
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The Agreeable Entrepreneurs

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
A study of a small sample of French dual-career entrepreneurs—businesspeople who were once in salaried employment—focuses on their motivations for change and how they viewed themselves in terms of five personality traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience.
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Intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs and spin-off entrepreneurs: similarities and differences

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2010
The topic concerning intrapreneurs pursuing new ventures within established firms is underresearched, despite the booming literature on corporate venturing. We know little about whether intrapreneurs are especially competent, proactive, innovative, growth-oriented and risk takers – and how well they perform.
Bager, Torben   +2 more
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Nascent Entrepreneurs

2004
Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and which ones see their vision through to eventual start-up.
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Not everyone is an entrepreneur, but entrepreneurs are everywhere

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2022
Laura Vall-llosera Casanovas   +1 more
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Musicians as entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs as musicians?

Creativity and Innovation Management, 2018
This study investigates how Swedish musicians in the non‐profit sector accept the “entrepreneur” label for themselves. The background section describes how identity work among “serious” musicians has, historically, made them shun any facet related to money‐making. The qualitative study shows that there is some remaining reluctance.
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