International Review of Entrepreneurship: Complete Collection, 2003 –: Recent submissions
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The Role of Loan Commitment Terms in Credit Allocation on the UK Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2017)In this paper we provide empirical evidence concerning the nature of loan commitment contracts as reflected by individual loan contract parameters in influencing the size of bank commitments. Specifically, we consider how ... -
Access to Informal Venture Capital and Ambitious Entrepreneurship - Cross Country Evidence
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Many empirical studies have emphasized the importance of institutional venture capital for enabling high growth entrepreneurship and innovation. Yet, there are reasons to believe that provision of informal venture capital ... -
Bank Loan Application Success of Innovative and Non-Innovative SMEs
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)The investigation of the determinants of access to finance is relevant because restricted loan accessibility could hinder firm growth. This paper focuses on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and whether their ... -
Business Dynamism and Economic Growth: US Regional Evidence
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)We document empirical evidence linking regional growth in the United States over the last 25 years with entrepreneurial activity, or 'business dynamism'. The main data source is the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) ... -
"My Old And My New Family" The Impact of Family Relationships on Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: An Italian Study
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Previous research that explored entrepreneurial intentions through the Theory of Planned Behavior has found that intentions are reliable predictors of entrepreneurial behavior. Less however is still known about background ... -
How Does the Gender and Attractiveness of the Supervisor Influence the Performance of Supervisees? Implications for Hiring Processes in New Ventures
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)A series of field and laboratory experiments were conducted in which single-sex groups of male or female students competed in different intellectual tasks to earn money or university grades (N = 291). The supervisor of ... -
High-Growth Firms: Not So Vital After All?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)High-growth firms have received considerable interest recently since they create most of the new jobs in the economy. The purpose of our paper is to investigate the characteristics of high-growth firms prior to their growth ... -
Review of Empirical Studies on Self-Employment out of Unemployment: Do Self-Employment Policies Make a Positive Impact?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)The role of self-employment policies as a way out of unemployment has been challenged. Shane (2009) stated that incentives for starting low growth companies should be eliminated as they attract the worst entrepreneurs. ... -
Business Takeover or New Venture? (Why) Do Women Prefer New Ventures?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)This paper analyzes the role of (nascent) entrepreneurs' sex in choosing the mode of business entry. Using a unique data set and estimating logit regressions we show that nas-cent entrepreneurs' sex indeed affects their ... -
Value Adding Activities in the Venture Capital Literature: A Review on Data, Variables and Methods
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Established literature has shown that venture capital funds' high returns can be partly attributed to value adding activities performed by the venture capital firms in their portfolio firms. Despite of the topic´s importance, ... -
The Returns to Field of Study in College: A Comparison Between Entrepreneurs and Wage-Workers
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)The different returns to formal education for entrepreneurs and wage-workers is a widely studied topic, yet little is known about the effects of specific educational training (i.e., field of study) on entrepreneurial ... -
Self-Employed Individuals With and Without Employees: Individual, Social and Economic Level Differences
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)This paper focuses on the differences between solo self-employed individuals and self-employed persons that hire employees, in terms of individual, social and economic variables. The study is based on Dyer's (1994) model ... -
Indicators of Start-Ups' Adoption of Blue Ocean Strategy: Empirical Evidence for the Danube Region
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)We empirically explore the differences between early stage entrepreneurs from the Danube Region who enter markets with high competition (red oceans) or low competition (blue oceans) in terms of their aspirations for ... -
SME Innovations and Performance: The Mediating Role of Product Innovation
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)This study investigates the mediating role of product innovations between process innovations, and other external and internal factors, and performance. An exploratory analysis of 500 manufacturing SMEs provides seven ... -
Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Systematic Literature Review
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)This paper provides a comprehensive review of literature relating to entrepreneurial leadership. A systematic literature review (SLR) is an acknowledged method for producing reliable knowledge from an evidence based approach. ... -
Re-Estimating the Returns to Education by Employment Status: Paid Employed vs. Own-Account Workers vs. Employers
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)This article is devoted to the exploration of the differences in the returns to education among wage earners and self-employed workers, while distinguishing between own-account workers and employers. Using a data base of ... -
The Impact of Strategic Independence and Mentoring on Entrepreneurial Orientation: Exploring the Propensity of Millennials to Transition into Full Adulthood
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Popular culture has reinforced some of the negative traits associated with young adults and their inability or unwillingness to enter fully into adulthood. However this study focuses on positive dispositional traits and ... -
The World is your Oyster: The Effects of Knowledge, Human Capital, Technology and Entry Timing on International Growth
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)We draw on elements of several established theories of internationalization to provide a framework for exploring international market entry and scale of entry measured by number of foreign markets entered for a sample of ... -
Testing the Validity of Blue Ocean Strategy versus Competitive Strategy: An Analysis of the Retail Industry
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)We investigate the nature of the competition process in retailing by contrasting blue ocean strategy and competitive strategy. We develop a methodology to test the core assumptions of both these major schools of strategic ... -
Job Creation by the Solo Self-Employed During the First Years of Business
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Among a cohort of solo self-employed in the Netherlands starting their business in 2008, we investigate how many of them employed at least one employee three years later, i.e., in 2011. We also investigate the determinants ...
