What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the decision to become selfemployed to test for differences between women and men in...

The prints of Sebald Beham and his brother Barthel were the subject of a recent exhibition titled Gottlosen Maler at the AlbrechtDűrer-Haus in Nuremberg (March 3–July 3, 2011), where this essay was included in the exhibition catalogue in German. Revised and expanded for publication in this journal in English, the essay addresses Beham’s biography and historiography and argues that Beham should ...

In this article we study the effect of uncertainty on an entrepreneur who must choose the capacity of his business before knowing the demand for his product. The unit profit of operation is known with certainty, but there is no flexibility in our one-period framework. We show how the introduction of global uncertainty reduces the investment of the risk-neutral entrepreneur and, even more, that ...

There is ongoing debate and some confusion about definitions and the use of the terms ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘entrepreneurship’ both in academia and in the media. The authors argue that this is likely to be a result of latent historical meanings for the terms, which have subsequently been debunked by academia, prevailing in public perceptions. Measurements of business start-up rates, self employmen...

This article asks whether blogging in the United Kingdom, which started later than in the United States, reproduces the gender differences in blogging behavior and the gender inequalities in recognition that have been observed in studies based largely on U.S. bloggers. A sample of 48 female and male British bloggers answered a questionnaire about their blogging practices and attitudes; data wer...

The expectation of reciprocal obligations lays a foundation for the venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship. These expectations, or perceived promises, constitute a psychological contract between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. In this paper, we are concerned with four forms of psychological contract violations in this relationship: i) disagreements over the strategy of the po...

Résumé : We study the specific rationale governing entrepreneur-investor relations in young ventures which raise equity capital from different investor types in pursuit of a strong growth strategy. Special emphasis is put on the governance process through which investors and entrepreneurs interact in a complex setting, where an entrepreneur faces at least two distinct investor types (business a...