Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US lab...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Entrepreneurship research has identified a number of personal characteristics believed to be instrumental in motivating entrepreneurial behavior. Two frequently cited personal traits associated with entrepreneurial potential are internal locus of control and innovativeness. Internal locus of control has been one of the most studied psychological traits in entrepreneurship rese...

Entrepreneurs have an important role in the development of countries' economies. who contribute to increase economic prosperity, employment and added value society should be supported. In addition support mechanisms that affect success enterprises, characteristics entrepreneurship are also important. The purpose this study is determine profile entrepreneurs established businesses TRA2 Region by...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between Entrepreneur Characteristics and Business Performance variables, entrepreneurial motivation variables MSME business performance. In using quantitative methods. This is because research data in form numbers analysis uses statistics, collecting instruments, quantitative, with aim testing established hypothesis, experimental/survey,...

This paper addresses the fundamental requirements for starting an online business. It covers the process of ideation, conceptualization, formulation, and implementation of new venture ideas on the Web. Using Facebook as an illustrative example, we learn how to turn an idea into a successful electronic business and to execute a business plan with IT skills, management expertise, a good entrepren...

Combining international business (IB) research with the knowledge based view, this paper examines factors affecting the export propensity and export performance of high-technology SMEs in an emerging economy. Using a unique, hand-collected dataset of 711 SMEs from Zhongguancun Science Park in China, it argues that export orientation and performance depend not only on the development of capabili...

We consider a risk-averse entrepreneur who invests in a project with idiosyncratic risk. In contrast to the literature, we assume the entrepreneur is unable to get a loan from a bank directly because of the low creditability of the entrepreneur and so an innovative financial contract, named equity-forguarantee swap, is signed among a bank, an insurer, and the entrepreneur. It is shown that the ...

entrepreneurship has long history in human life and related studies have been conducted primarily in scientific circles by industrialized countries. however, this topic has been discussed recently in our country. the main objective of this study was to assess the behavioral and personality characteristics of entrepreneurship in order to identify entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs of dairy catt...