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Entrepreneurship Education as Learning to Form Identities — Cross-Cultural Perspective

2015

[Introduction] In this study we focus on entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurs’ professional identity and related cross-cultural issues [1]. Today’s global business requires professional identities that are flexible and broad-mind, and this is why teaching should recognize these challenges. There is a need for new skills such as generalist skills, social skills and abilities for creating and sustaining new, complex trust-based business networks. We believe entrepreneurship education can promote such abilities. The entrepreneurs-to-be also need ethical rules and codes as they build values and ethical understanding, all rooted in identity. Recently, researchers such as Rae [4] have stress…

Restrictive Factors for Micro-Company Growth in Latvia

2020

Every country is interested in entrepreneurship development as entrepreneurs form the basis for economic development, so academic researchers are looking for supportive and restrictive factors in business development. In Latvia, the majority of companies are micro and small enterprises. The aim of the paper is to investigate the restrictive factors related to the successful development of the company in Latvia, depending on the number of employees. Tasks of the research - evaluate the limiting factors influencing the development of micro-companies; find the most important factors that limit the involvement of employees and experienced managers in companies in the country, regions; compare t…

“To Own, or not to Own?” A multilevel analysis of intellectual property right policies' on academic entrepreneurship

2017

The political environment around universities has led them to create an infrastructure to manage academic inventions. While some consider that the advantages of a university entrepreneurial structure outweigh any potential negative effects, others question their detrimental effect on academic scientists’ entrepreneurial behavior. However, this debate remains unresolved as none of these two views have been fully empirically supported. Using multilevel models for a population of 2230 professors in 27 universities in Canada (82 individuals per unit on average), we test the effect of three features of institutional intellectual property right policy characteristics, namely, property rights (own…

Gender Behavioral Issues and Entrepreneurship

2017

Women, despite the fact that they make up around 50% of the world’s population, own and manage significantly fewer businesses than men worldwide. Previous empirical research indicates that the gender gap in entrepreneurial propensity mainly comes from subjective perceptions as self-confidence in one’s own skills and fear of failure, and from women’s lower exposure to other entrepreneurs. In this chapter we present laboratory economic experiments that study, under controlled conditions, subjective perceptions of women and men that seem to affect entrepreneurial propensity. The results of the reviewed experiments indicate that correcting factors such as self-confidence is possible (due to its…

A Quick Approach to the Microfoundations of Social Entrepreneurship

2021

The very first section of the book deals with the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship from a microeconomics perspective. In this line, the individual represents the unit of analysis, that is, the social entrepreneur. Social entrepreneurs are agents who intend to make a positive change in society in such a way that their solution presents a tool to improve the quality of life of the segment of the population they want to target. In these first pages, our intention has been to explain what is inside the mind of the social entrepreneur in the process of developing the idea and putting it into practice. We assumed that entrepreneurs are individuals forming part of a particular society and con…

Econometric studies of public support to entrepreneurship

2011

On the Substitutability between Paid-employment and Self-employment: Evidence from the Period 1969–2014 in the United States

2019

This paper provides estimates of the elasticity of substitution between operational and managerial jobs in the US economy during the years 1969–2014, derived from an aggregate CES production function. Estimating the long-term relationship between (the log of) the aggregate employment/self-employment ratio and (the log of) the returns from paid-employment relative to self-employment and testing for structural breaks, we report different estimates of the elasticity of substitution in each of the two regimes identified. To this end we apply the methodology on instability tests proposed in Kejriwal and Perron (2008, 2010) as well as the cointegration tests developed in Arai and Kurozumi (2007) …

Uzņēmējdarbības izglītības pārvaldības pilnveide Latvijā skolēnu uzņēmējkompetences attīstības kontekstā

2013

ANOTĀCIJA Promocijas darbs „Uzņēmējdarbības izglītības pārvaldības pilnveide Latvijā skolēnu uzņēmējkompetences attīstības kontekstā” izstrādāts ar mērķi izveidot un izvērtēt uzņēmējdarbības izglītības pārvaldības teorētisko ietvaru, vadoties no tā veikt pētījumus, un izstrādāt priekšlikumus uzņēmējdarbības izglītības pārvaldības pilnveidei. Promocijas darbā tiek noskaidrota jēdzienu uzņēmējs un uzņēmējspējas attīstība. Pamatojoties uz zinātniskās literatūras analīzi lietots jēdziens uzņēmējkompetence plašākā nozīmē un pilnveidota tā definīcija, atbilstoši uzņēmēja lomai un funkcijām mūsdienu sabiedrībā. Analizējot uzņēmēja funkciju un lomas maiņu, izpētīta uzņēmējdarbības izglītības būtība…

Yrittäjävalmiudet ja niiden oppiminen : perustaja- ja jatkajayrittäjien käsityksien eroja

2013

Entrepreneurship training for new ventures: Experiences from the training program implemented in Central Finland

2009

Paper presented at the 36th Academy of International Business (UK and Ireland chapter) Conference (AIB-UKI), Glasgow, UK, April 2-4.2009. peerReviewed