Being an entrepreneur: emergence and structuring of two immigrant entrepreneur groups

Becoming an Entrepreneur

Becoming an Entrepreneur Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates problems of selection bias (on observable and unobservable traits) and cre...

Creativity and the Entrepreneur

....in the long run no really subtle, deep, and far-reaching problems can be solved in any field whatsoever, except by people who are able to respond in an original and creative way to the ever changing and developing nature of the overall fact by which they are confronted." (Bohm, 1998). Creativity can lead to many initiatives which are relevant to the development of business. This paper begin...

Women Entrepreneur In India

Entrepreneurs play a key role in any economy. These are the people who have the skills and initiative necessary to take good new ideas to market and make the right decisions to make the idea profitable. The reward for the risks taken is the potential economic profits the entrepreneur could earn. Technically, a "women entrepreneur" is any women who organizes and manages any enterprise, usually w...

Carl Djerassi: Chemist and entrepreneur

Characteristics of the Maltese Entrepreneur

This empirical study which is based in Malta seeks to characterize the personality/psychological profile of Maltese entrepreneurs (business owners and self-employed persons) and employed managers. The characteristics investigated in this study are the need for achievement, locus of control, tolerance towards ambiguity, self-confidence, creativity/innovativeness, risk-taking propensity and self-...