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The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature.
Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions; hence more risk-averse individuals are
less likely to become entrepreneurs. In contrast to previous research, we are able to examine empirically whether the decision
of starting a business is influenced by objectively measurable risk attitudes at the time when this decision is made. Our results show that in general, individuals with lower risk aversion are more likely to become
self-employed. Sensitivity analysis reveals, however, that this is true only for people coming out of regular employment,
whereas for individuals coming out of unemployment or inactivity, risk attitudes do not seem to play a role in the decision
process.
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Alexander S. KritikosEmail: |
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The Appropriateness of the Key Account Management Organization 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Stefan Wengler 《Journal of Business Market Management》2007,1(4):253-272
Key account management programs often lack efficiency and effectiveness, as most key account management organizations are
inadequately designed for specific customer-supplier relationships. In this paper, a decision model based on transaction cost
economics is developed that allows for individualized decision-making on the most appropriate key account management organization:
By defining the transaction cost economics determinants uncertainty and frequency more in-depth companies will become able to refine their decision on the key account management organization alternatives
with respect to the characteristics of their individual customer-supplier relationship.
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Stefan WenglerEmail: |
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In this paper, we explore the impact of individualism and collectivism on three basic aspects of ethical decision making –
the perception of moral problems, moral reasoning, and behavior. We argue that the inclusion of business practices within
the moral domain by the individual depends partly upon individualism and collectivism. We also propose a pluralistic approach
to post-conventional moral judgment that includes developmental paths appropriate for individualist and collectivist cultures.
Finally, we argue that the link between moral judgment and behavior is related to individualism and collectivism.
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David B. AllenEmail: |
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Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf. Denis Royer Dr. Martin Meints 《Business & Information Systems Engineering》2009,1(3):245-253
Enterprise Identity Management Systems (EIdMS) are an IT-based infrastructure that needs to be integrated into various business
processes and related infrastructures. Assessment and preparation of decisions for the introduction need to take the costs,
benefits, and the organizational settings into consideration. A variety of methods for the evaluation and decision support
of new IT (e. g. EIdMS) are discussed in the literature – however, these are typically based on single dimensions (e. g. financial
or technology aspects). This paper proposes a multidimensional decision support framework, based on the Balanced Scorecard
concept. The presented approach introduces four perspectives and a related set of initial decision parameters to support decision
making. The perspectives are (a) financial/monetary, (b) business processes, (c) supporting processes and (ICT) infrastructure
and (d) information security, risks and compliance. Perspectives and adaptable sets of decision parameters also may serve
as foundation for software-based decision support instruments.
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Martin MeintsEmail: |
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Zoltan J. Acs Pontus Braunerhjelm David B. Audretsch Bo Carlsson 《Small Business Economics》2009,32(1):15-30
Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the recognition of opportunities and the decision to exploit
them. Although the entrepreneurship literature treats opportunities as exogenous, the prevailing theory of economic growth
suggests they are endogenous. This paper advances the microeconomic foundations of endogenous growth theory by developing
a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Knowledge created endogenously results in knowledge spillovers, which allow
entrepreneurs to identify and exploit opportunities.
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Bo CarlssonEmail: |
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Using local market employment rates as our measure of economic performance, we find a positive and significant correlation
between the average annual level of employment in a local market and the level of SBA guaranteed lending in that local market.
Furthermore, the intensity of this correlation is much larger in low-income markets. Indeed, our results suggest that this
correlation is positive and significant only in low-income markets. This result has important implications for public policy in general and SBA guaranteed lending in particular.
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William E. Jackson III (Corresponding author)Email: |
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We investigate the relationship between free-standing insert advertising style and coupon redemption. Results from two experiments
indicate that the propensity to clip a coupon can be enhanced by matching ad tone (emotional vs rational) to the nature of
a consumer’s primary motivation with respect to coupon usage. Moreover, this result appears to hold for consumers with both
procoupon and anticoupon inclinations.
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Michelle L. RoehmEmail: |
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Entrepreneurship,economic development and institutions 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:2
This paper is an introduction to the special issue from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in
Washington, D.C., in 2008. The paper has three objectives. First, to discuss the importance of the three stages of economic
development, the factor-driven stage, the efficiency-driven stage and the innovation-driven stage. Second, to examine the empirical evidence on the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship.
Third, to present a summary of the papers in the context of the theory.
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Jolanda HesselsEmail: |
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Why are some entrepreneurs more innovative than others? 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:1
Philipp Koellinger 《Small Business Economics》2008,31(1):21-37
Entrepreneurs differ in the degree and type of novelty that they introduce to the economy. This study provides theoretical
insights and empirical evidence on the emergence of entrepreneurial innovativeness. The results suggest that entrepreneurial
innovativeness depends both on individual factors and on the environment in which the individual acts. In particular, high educational attainment, unemployment, and a high degree
of self-confidence are significantly associated with entrepreneurial innovativeness at the individual level. Furthermore,
the distribution of innovative and imitative entrepreneurship varies across countries. Entrepreneurs in highly developed countries
are significantly more likely to engage in innovative rather than purely imitative activities. The theoretical approach of
this study combines a judgment and decision making framework with factors that contribute towards the individual perception
of decision alternatives. Data used in the empirical analysis originate from the 2002–2004 adult population surveys of the
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, yielding a sample of 9,549 nascent entrepreneurs from 30 different countries.
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Philipp KoellingerEmail: |
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Following Manne (1966, Insider Trading and the Stock Market (New York, Free Press)) we introduce a distinction between insider trading and market manipulation on the one hand and corporate
insiders versus misappropriators on the other hand. This gives rise to four types of alleged inside transactions. We argue
that the literature on insider trading has often targeted inside transactions type II, III and IV but that these arguments
do not necessarily hold for type I transactions. We look for consequentionalist as well as non-consequentionalist arguments
against type I transactions and demonstrate that these are hard to find. Throughout the article we refer extensively to the
economic literature on insider trading in order to overcome a relative divide between the economic, legal, and philosophical
discussion on insider trading.
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Luc Van Liedekerke (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Dmitri Kuksov 《Quantitative Marketing and Economics》2009,7(3):267-288
This paper explores the communication and choice strategies of economic agents deciding on a partnership, where agents are
uncertain about their payoffs, and payoffs of each agent depend on and are partly known to the potential partner. Business
examples of such decisions include mergers, acquisitions, distribution channel partners, as well as manufacturing and brand
alliances. Dating and marriage partner selection are also natural examples of this game. The paper shows that (a) when communication
is informative, the communication strategy as a function of the expected payoff of the partnership involves pretending fit
when expected payoff is high, pretending misfit when expected payoff is low, and telling the truth in the intermediate range,
and (b) the condition for informativeness of communication is that the distribution of payoffs has thin tails. Furthermore,
the paper shows that the possibility of communication, even when this communication is not restricted to be truthful, can
decrease the expected payoff for both the sender and the receiver; in particular, it can decrease the expected social welfare.
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Dmitri KuksovEmail: |
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Deli Yang Mahmut Sonmez Derek Bosworth Gerald Fryxell 《Journal of Business Ethics》2009,87(2):269-283
This paper identifies that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a negative effect on software piracy rates in
addition to consolidating prior research that economic development and the cultural dimension of individualism also negatively
affect piracy rates. Using data for 59 countries from 2000 to 2005, the findings show that economic well-being, individualism
and technology development as measured by ICT expenditures explain between 70% and 82% of the variation in software piracy
rates during this period. The research results provide important implications for policy makers and business practitioners
to help reduce software piracy.
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Gerald FryxellEmail: |
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Entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America 总被引:1,自引:5,他引:1
This study analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial dynamics and the level of competitiveness in Latin American countries.
Based on a stage of economic development model, we demonstrate that Latin American countries under the model followed different
paths related to competitiveness. These different paths can explain the effect of specific competitiveness conditions on entrepreneurial
dynamics in Latin America.
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José Ernesto AmorósEmail: |
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The authors review the foundation for incorporating market concentration directly into consumer utility functions, and develop
a general equilibrium model to derive welfare-maximizing principles for optimal enforcement of antitrust policies toward concentrated
market structures, including merger policy. An intriguing result is that increased market concentration can fail to maximize
economic welfare even if a proposed merger might generate positive net efficiencies.
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Norman P. ObstEmail: |
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Janine Frauendorf Elena Kähm Michael Kleinaltenkamp 《Journal of Business Market Management》2007,1(1):7-40
As a phenomenon of modified value-chain structures the economic importance of business-to-business markets has been growing
immensely during the past decades. This paper delivers a quantified overview of the market dimensions in terms of transactional
volume. In addition, it explains the causes for this market development such as an increased service orientation in business
transactions, higher degrees of customization, and influential factors on a macro level. In this context, future trends in
this sector will be outlined as well.
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Michael KleinaltenkampEmail: |
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The comfortable perception that global environmental challenges can be met through marginal lifestyle changes no longer bears
scrutiny. The cumulative impact of large numbers of individuals making marginal improvements in their environmental impact
will be a marginal collective improvement in environmental impact. Yet, we live at a time when we need urgent and ambitious
changes. An appeal to environmental imperatives is more likely to lead to spillover into other pro-environmental behaviours
than an appeal to financial self-interest or social status.
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Tom CromptonEmail: |
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Scott Fay 《Marketing Letters》2009,20(3):277-293
This paper shows that the Name-Your-Own-Price (NYOP) business model can help soften competition. When consumers differ in
their frictional costs (i.e., the shopping hassle) they experience when bidding at an NYOP retailer, the NYOP format can be
a mechanism for differentiating a retailer from a posted-price rival. Beyond providing a motivation for using an NYOP mechanism,
competition also has important implications for the optimal structure of the NYOP format. For example, this paper shows that
prohibiting rebidding may benefit an NYOP firm by reducing price rivalry.
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Scott FayEmail: |
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The number of non-farm proprietorships in the US has expanded significantly in past decades, but this expansion has not occurred
evenly over space. Regression analysis correcting for spatial autocorrelation reveals that proprietors respond rationally
to economic incentives. Parameter estimates for variables measuring collateral, age, ethnic mix, government policy, female
labor force participation, and natural amenities, each have the expected signs. A few options are available to policymakers
for influencing growth in self-employment densities over time.
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Anil Rupasingha (Corresponding author)Email: |
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The role of emotions is increasingly gaining attention as a central element in understanding customer evaluations of service
failure and recovery experiences. Despite the importance of emotions for service organizations, however, empirical investigations
of customers’ emotional response to service recovery encounters remain scarce. A reason for this has been the absence of a
valid and reliable measurement instrument for analyzing and comparing the emotions associated with different recovery experiences.
Addressing this issue, the current paper presents the development and validation of a new scale specifically designed to measure
experienced emotions during service recovery encounters (ESRE). The results show that the ESRE scale is a valid and reliable
instrument, which should be helpful for empirically studying the role of emotional responses to service failure and recovery
encounters.
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Klaus SchoeferEmail: |
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We provide evidence on the influence of expectations and network effects on the timing of technological adoption. By considering
a sample of SMEs operating in Italy, we focus on the determinants of their decision to adopt Fast Ethernet, a communication
standard for Local Area Networks (LANs). We find that both expectations and network effects significantly affect the timing
of adoption. In particular, price expectations generally tend to delay adoption and (indirect) network effects in the form
of backward compatibility as well as informational spillovers tend to foster adoption. Firm size also matters.
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Nicoletta CorrocherEmail: |