Journal Title
Title of Journal: Small Bus Econ
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Abbravation: Small Business Economics
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Authors: Wim Naudé José Ernesto Amorós Oscar Cristi
Publish Date: 2013/07/03
Volume: 42, Issue: 3, Pages: 523-540
Abstract
Do the presence and nature of entrepreneurship impact on national happiness and are nations with happy citizens better for entrepreneurs to start new businesses To provide tentative answers we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and subjective wellbeing and use various data sources to uncover the first evidence of the relationship between entrepreneurship and happiness at the country level We find that opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship may contribute to a nation’s happiness but only to a certain point at which the effects of happiness begin to decline Moreover our results suggest that a nation’s happiness affects earlystage opportunitydriven entrepreneurial activityWe are grateful to Erkko Autio Niels Bosma Jonathan Levie and Sander Wennekers for helpful comments on the earlier drafts José Ernesto Amoros and Oscar Cristi also acknowledges the support of The National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development FONDECYT Chile Project No 1130919 “Are entrepreneurs happier than others The relationship between happiness wellbeing and entrepreneurial activity at country and individual level”
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- Distributive justice, corruption, and entrepreneurial behavior
- Who instigates university–industry collaborations? University scientists versus firm employees
- How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets: evidence from survey data
- Firm size, age, industrial networking, and growth: a case of the Korean manufacturing industry
- Size matters: entrepreneurial entry and government
- Entrepreneurship, developing countries, and development economics: new approaches and insights
- Effect of the Number of Banking Relationships on Credit Availability: Evidence from Panel Data of Spanish Small Firms
- Identity and entrepreneurship: do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions?
- Entrepreneurship and innovation networks
- Effectiveness of R&D tax incentives in small and large enterprises in Québec
- The impact of family ownership on innovation: evidence from the German machine tool industry
- Microfinance, subsidies and local externalities
- Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
- Private Firms and Corporate Governance: An Integrated Economic and Management Perspective
- Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences
- Entrepreneurial skills and workers’ wages in small firms
- Where are all the self-employed women? Push and pull factors influencing female labor market decisions
- Nascent entrepreneurship panel studies: progress and challenges
- Performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises in services trade: evidence from French firms
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