Theorizing about Entrepreneurship

Bygrave, William D.; Hofer, Charles W.

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“…Documenting, measuring and therefore understanding entrepreneurship is a difficult task because of the characteristics and dynamics involved (see Bygrave and Hofer 1991). One important contributor to this difficulty is that 'available indicators relating to entrepreneurship measure everything from personal attributes of the entrepreneurs like gender to outcome of the entrepreneurial process like start-up rates' (Hoffmann, Larsen and Oxholin 2006: 10).…”

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Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Desai¹

2011

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

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This paper discusses the difficulties associated with measuring entrepreneurship in developing countries. Three important dichotomies in the research on entrepreneurship are discussed: formal-informal, legal-illegal, and necessity-opportunity. Several common measures of entrepreneurship are outlined along with their relevance to developing countries, including self-employment, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data, World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey data and OECD data. The implications of the current understanding of entrepreneurship are discussed with respect to institutions and economic development.

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Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

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2011

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

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“…We are aware that the entrepreneurial choice is possibly a very complex one to explain because entrepreneurship is a multidimensional phenomenon about which there is no general agreement. Not only have psychology, economics, anthropology, and business studies widely different views but also the more popular view of what entrepreneurship is, seems to vary with time and space (Bygrave and Hofer 1991;Wennekers and Thurik 1999;Verheul et al 2005). In the present study we measure entrepreneurial activity with selfemployment which is an established and widely used measure.…”

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Genome-wide association studies in economics and entrepreneurship research: promises and limitations

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The recently developed genome-wide association study (GWAS) design enables the identification of genes specifically associated with economic outcomes such as occupational and other choices. This is a promising new approach for economics research which we aim to apply to the choice for entrepreneurship. However, due to multiple testing issues, very large sample sizes are needed to differentiate between true and false positives. For a GWAS on entrepreneurship, we expect that a sample size of at least 30,000 observations is required.

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“…Nesse sentido, as imagens, impressões e concepções do lugar criam a "memória e uma ligação afetiva" do indivíduo com o ambiente (Tuan, 1980), convergindo para que a atitude empreendedora seja preditora do sentimento de pertencimento (Lopez & Souza, 2008;Lüthje & Franke, 2003), haja vista que a inserção do indivíduo na atividade empreendedora está relacionada com a detecção de oportunidades. Contudo, para que ocorra essa identificação e exploração existe uma atratividade em relação aos sentimentos externos do indivíduo (Bygrave & Hofer, 1991;Davidsson, 1995).…”

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Topophilic feelings and their relationships with entrepreneurial attitude and intent

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By considering that a contextual analysis on the environment collaborates to help entrepreneurs, based on affective sets of the feeling of belonging, this research aims to search the relation between an entrepreneurial intention and attitude in the raising of topophilic feelings in college students. Thus, a quantitative study provided data collected through a sample of 360 students from two further superior education institutes of Ceará. To check this research assumptions (H1 -level of entrepreneurial attitude with a positive impact in the raising topophilic feelings and H2 -level of Topophilic feelings and their relationships with entrepreneurial attitude and intentPalavras-chave: Sentimentos topofílicos; Empreendedorismo; Intenção empreendedora; Atitude empreendedora.Considerando que a análise contextual em torno do ambiente colabora com a atuação empreendedora, subsidiada por construções afetivas em torno do sentimento de pertencimento, busca-se, com esta pesquisa, investigar a relação entre a intenção e a atitude empreendedoras na formação de sentimentos topofílicos em universitários. Realizouse estudo quantitativo, com dados coletados por meio de questionários aplicados em uma amostra de 360 discentes de duas Instituições de Ensino Superior do Ceará. Para responder as hipóteses levantadas (H1 -O nível de atitudes empreendedoras impacta positivamente na formação de sentimentos topofílicos e H2 -O nível de intenção empreendedora impacta positivamente na formação de sentimentos topofílicos), procedeu-se à Análise Estrutural com auxílio dos softwares estatísticos SPSS 22.0 e AMOS 20.0. Na análise das trajetórias causais evidenciou-se que todas elas são estatisticamente significativas. A análise do modelo mostra que a maioria dos pesos fatoriais é elevado (≥ 0,5), além de ter coeficiente de determinação adequado de 0,27 (R2≥0,25), que informa o poder explicativo da regressão. Todos os pesos de regressão padronizados (β) são significativos ao nível de significância (p< 0,001) ademais, existe uma correlação entre Intenção Empreendedora e Atitude Empreendedora (0,36). Os valores de C.R. estão acima dos valores de referência (C.R>|1,96|). Os resultados demonstram que há influência positiva da atitude e da intenção empreendedora nos sentimentos de topofilia, haja vista que as hipóteses do estudo não foram refutadas, o que indicou que o modelo teórico é capaz de reproduzir a estrutura correlacional das variáveis manifestas observadas na amostra da pesquisa. As discussões apresentadas neste artigo contribuem para o maior conhecimento teórico da relação entre a intenção e a atitude empreendedoras na formação de sentimentos topofílicos, além da contribuição em definir estratégias para ações empreendedoras em ambientes universitários. Sentimentos Topofílicos e suas Relações com a Atitude e a Intenção Empreendedoras

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Theorizing about Entrepreneurship

Cited by 710 publications

References 11 publications

Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Genome-wide association studies in economics and entrepreneurship research: promises and limitations

Topophilic feelings and their relationships with entrepreneurial attitude and intent

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