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Entrepreneurship and its determinants in a cross-country setting Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Roy Thurik
Andreas Freytag
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The relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other than economic factors are at play. The present paper offers some new thoughts about the determinants of entrepreneurial attitudes and activities by testing the relationship between institutional variables and cross-country differences in the preferences for self-employment as well as in actual selfemployment. Data of the 25 member states of the European Union as well as the US are used. The results show that country specific (cultural) variables seem to explain the preference for entrepreneurship but not the actual entrepreneurship. The present paper also introduces the remaining four papers of the special issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics around the theme Entrepreneurship and Culture.
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"The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited ,"
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Scales Research Reports
H200824, EIM Business and Policy Research.
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Lorraine Uhlaner & Roy Thurik, 2007.
"Postmaterialism influencing total entrepreneurial activity across nations ,"
Journal of Evolutionary Economics ,
Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 161-185, April.
[Downloadable!] (restricted)
Other versions:
Uhlaner, L.M. & Thurik, A.R., 2006.
"Postmaterialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations ,"
Research Paper
ERS-2006-062-ORG Revision, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus Uni.
[Downloadable!] Lorraine Uhlaner & Roy Thurik, 2005.
"Post-Materialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations ,"
Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy
2005-20, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group.
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"Entrepreneurial Exit in Real and Imagined Markets ,"
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
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"From potential to real entrepreneurship ,"
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H200822, EIM Business and Policy Research.
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