How Entrepreneurial Characteristics Influence Company Creation: A Cross-National Study of 22 Countriestested With Panel Data Methodology / Verslumo Charakteristikų Įtaka Įmonės Kūrimui: Studijos, Atliktos 22 Valstybėse, Rezultatų Pristatymas

Álvarez-Herránz, Agustín; Valencia-DeLara, Pilar; Martínez–Ruiz, María Pilar

doi:10.3846/16111699.2011.599409

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“…With respect to the need for targeted entrepreneurship education and training, we found that although close to 90% of the undergraduate students in our sample expressed interest in starting a new venture, less than 10% had undergone any formal training or developed the requisite skills to engage in entrepreneurial activities. These results provide evidence in support of the need to initiate or improve entrepreneurship education and training (Grüner, Neuberger 2006), particularly for women (Alvarez-Herranz et al 2011). As Kourilsky and Walstad (1998) suggested in their study of female US youth, targeted entrepreneurship training is particularly needed in order to enhance young women's confidence as entrepreneurs and managers, as prior research has indicated that women generally demonstrate lower confidence in their abilities and exhibit lower self-efficacy.…”

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confidence: 54%

Entrepreneurial Motivations Among Female University Youth in Saudi Arabia

Almobaireek

Manolova

2013

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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To successfully target potential women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, a better understanding of their entrepreneurial motivations is needed. In this study, we used economic, human development, and social learning perspectives to explore the entrepreneurial motivations among female university youth in Saudi Arabia and formulated three hypotheses on the gender differences in these motivations. We conducted a survey among undergraduate students at King Saud University in Spring'2010 (n = 856) and tested our hypotheses using analysis of variance (chi-square tests and t-tests). Consistent with research on female entrepreneurs around the world, our results indicate that female university youth in Saudi Arabia are more likely than men to start an entrepreneurial venture out of necessity, whereas men are more likely to have a financial success motivation. At the same time, and in contrast to findings from studies on entrepreneurial motivations in the context of Western Europe and the USA, young Saudi university women report a narrower range of entrepreneurial motivations, compared to men. The implications of this exploratory study point to the need for initiatives specifically focused at young women in order to increase their confidence that entrepreneurship is a viable route to accomplish a broad range of career reasons.

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confidence: 54%

Entrepreneurial Motivations Among Female University Youth in Saudi Arabia

Almobaireek

Manolova

2013

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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“…Entrepreneurs' characteristics influence the entrepreneurial behavior significantly (Álvarez-Herranz et al, 2011). Some entrepreneurs engage in companies' inventive activities, which enhances firms' absorptive capacity (Mueller et al, 2020) and spurs firms' survival and growth (Haeussler et al, 2019).…”

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CAN FOUNDERS’DUAL ROLESFACILITATE INNOVATION? – FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FOUNDERS’ R&D NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS

Dan-ping

Zeng

2021

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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Founders are crucial for the start-ups, which in turn makes it very important to study how founders’ behaviour affects the development of the start-ups. Based on the data of the companies listed on Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) and Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) board from 2014 to 2017 in China, this paper explores the impact of founders’ dual roles of R&D and management on enterprises’ innovation performance from the perspective of founders’ R&D network characteristics. The empirical research reveals that the more an enterprise’s founders participate in the R&D activities and the more central they are in the R&D network, the better the enterprise’s technological innovation performance. It is because the high network centrality enables founders the stronger ability of innovation and opportunity identification and draws their attention to innovation. This research further discloses that the promotion effect is restrained when enterprises obtain more government subsidies and founders have more power. Italso finds that founders’ R&D role does not transform the innovation output into enterprises’ value effectively though the role increases the innovation output, instead, it even restrains the transformation.

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“…Another demographic variable that can potentially influence both probabilities of engagement into gig and sharing economy initiatives and development of entrepreneurial intentions is individual age (Levesque and Minniti, 2011). As such, younger people might be more inclined to come up with the decision to engage in entrepreneurship as they usually are more enthusiastic, energetic and dynamic (Alvarez-Herranz et al, 2011;Kallas and Parts, 2020) qualities that are intrinsic to those who chose entrepreneurial career path. Moreover, they have a lower opportunity cost of time, higher present value of future income streams and more extensive time horizon of planning (Gielnik et al, 2014;Levesque and Minniti, 2011), as well as greater flexibility in terms of potential careers choice.…”

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A springboard for entrepreneurs? Gig and sharing economy and entrepreneurship in Russia

Bogatyreva

Verkhovskaya

Makarov

2021

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Purpose The growing popularity of gig and sharing economy changes not only consumption models but also employment patterns. This study aims to analyze the potential entrepreneurial nature of gig and sharing economy initiatives. As such, the authors compare the entrepreneurial intentions of gig and sharing economy workers to the general population. Further, the authors consider commonalities and differences in terms of the driving forces of both intentions to start-up and participation in gig and sharing economy, treating them as connected phenomena. Finally, the authors look into gig and sharing economy experience as a direct antecedent to entrepreneurial intentions formation. Design/methodology/approach The empirical settings for this study are derived from the sample of 1,257 individuals who participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Adult Population Survey 2018 in Russia. Methodologically, the authors rely on analysis of variance-test and binary logistic regression analysis to test the study hypotheses. Findings The results indicate that entrepreneurial intentions of gig and sharing economy workers are significantly higher when compared to the general population. In terms of antecedents to gig and sharing economy participation and startup intentions, similar effects of age, entrepreneurial social capital, prior entrepreneurial exit and intrapreneurial experience were revealed, while perceived self-efficacy was associated only with engagement into digital platforms. Finally, gig and sharing economy experience showed significant and positive effect on entrepreneurial intentions formation. Originality/value This study represents a first substantive effort to systematize antecedents to gig and sharing economy participation through an entrepreneurship perspective. Beyond that, this research adds to the contextualization of entrepreneurship literature stream, further defining the mechanism of entrepreneurial intentions formation in empirical settings of an emerging market with a relatively low propensity of population to develop intentions to start-up.

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How Entrepreneurial Characteristics Influence Company Creation: A Cross-National Study of 22 Countriestested With Panel Data Methodology / Verslumo Charakteristikų Įtaka Įmonės Kūrimui: Studijos, Atliktos 22 Valstybėse, Rezultatų Pristatymas

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

Entrepreneurial Motivations Among Female University Youth in Saudi Arabia

Entrepreneurial Motivations Among Female University Youth in Saudi Arabia

CAN FOUNDERS’DUAL ROLESFACILITATE INNOVATION? – FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FOUNDERS’ R&D NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS

A springboard for entrepreneurs? Gig and sharing economy and entrepreneurship in Russia

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