Drivers of high-quality entrepreneurship: what changes did the crisis bring about?

Entrepreneurs’ human capital and growth aspirations: the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture

“…These findings explain the increasing interest in how entrepreneurs developed their beliefs about firm growth (Autio and Acs 2010;Autio et al 2013;Estrin et al 2013;Giotopoulos et al 2016;Puente et al 2016). Yet, more study is required to understand how both individual characteristics and external conditions affect their growth aspirations.…”

“…Specifically, entrepreneurs with higher educational attainment are more likely to have increasing aspirations due to the presence of such positive role models. These focus on early-stage entrepreneurs that are those who own and manage a business that is less than 42 months old (Giotopoulos et al 2016;Puente et al 2016;Reynolds et al 2005). By using this category, growth aspirations are obtained from firms that are at their initial stages of development (Douglas 2013;Estrin et al 2013).…”

“…Entrepreneurship training is measured by way of a dummy variable set equal to 1 if the entrepreneur has received some training activities related to starting and enterprise (and to 0 otherwise) (Capelleras et al 2016). Perceived entrepreneurial skills controls for the entrepreneur's self-confidence perceptions derived from different forms of human capital (Giotopoulos et al 2016;Stuetzer et al 2014). It takes value 1 if the respondent perceives she has the knowledge, skills and experienced required to start-up a new business and 0 otherwise.…”

Cross-country differences in innovative entrepreneurial activity

“…An individual with high entrepreneurial cognitive abilities is more likely to become an innovative entrepreneur in a country with low uncertainty avoidance. The current research contributes to the growing literatures on institutional theory (e.g., Elam and Terjesen, 2010;Walter and Block, 2016), social cognitive theory (e.g., Hmieleski and Baron, 2009) and quality of entrepreneurship (e.g., Giotopoulos et al, 2017). Researchers have started to use the quality of entrepreneurship (Giotopoulos et al, 2017) in their research, as it supports countries' economies in adverse times more than a high quantity of typical startups does (e.g., Shane, 2009).…”

Female and Male Entrepreneurship During the Economic Crisis: An Institutional Tale of European countries

“…Despite Malach Pines et al (2010) and Noguera et al (2013) suggest that female entrepreneurs are more affected by the economic crisis than their male counterparts, scarce evidence exists regarding a differentiated impact of unemployment on entrepreneurial activity by women and men. Yet, Giotopoulos et al (2017) show that for both women and men, entrepreneurship suffers changes during the economic crisis. Williams and Vorley (2014) explore how external economic shocks affect the labour market by increasing the unemployment level.…”