International Review of Entrepreneurship: Volume 14, Issue 4, 2016
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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 ...