2008-10-01
Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers
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Small Business Economics: an entrepreneurship journal , Volume 31 - Issue 3 p. 323- 339
Several drivers of entrepreneurial aspirations and entrepreneurial motivations are investigated using country-level data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) for the years 2005 and 2006. We estimate a two-equation model explaining aspirations using motivations and socioeconomic variables, and explaining motivations using socioeconomic variables. We find that countries with a higher incidence of increase-wealth-motivated entrepreneurs tend to have a higher prevalence of high-job-growth and export-oriented entrepreneurship and that a country's level of social security relates negatively to the prevalence of innovative, high-job-growth, and export-oriented entrepreneurship. We also find that the increase-wealth motive mediates the relationship between socioeconomic variables and entrepreneurial aspirations.
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| doi.org/10.1007/s11187-008-9134-x, hdl.handle.net/1765/14721 | |
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| Small Business Economics: an entrepreneurship journal | |
| Organisation | Erasmus Research Institute of Management |
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Hessels, J., van Gelderen, M., & Thurik, R. (2008). Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers. Small Business Economics: an entrepreneurship journal, 31(3), 323–339. doi:10.1007/s11187-008-9134-x |
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