Country’s Development as a Determinant of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity

• Authors: Miha Marič , Jasmina Žnidaršič , Miha Uhan , Vlado Dimovski , Marko Ferjan , Maja Djurica , Mitja Jeraj , Matej Janežič
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Our study is built on the dependence of early-stage entrepreneurial activity on GDP per capita, GDP real growth rate, unemployment rate, inflation rate, investments and public debt of different countries. We divide the early-stage entrepreneurial activity into necessity-driven and improvement-driven opportunistic entrepreneurial activity. To establish the dependencies we have conducted the regression analyses. Our three main findings are: (a) early-stage entrepreneurial activity does depend on our predictors; (b) necessity-driven entrepreneurial activity is negatively correlated to country’s development; and (c) improvement-driven opportunistic entrepreneurial activity is positively correlated to country’s development.

Keywords

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entrepreneurship; early-stage entrepreneurial activity; economic development indicators

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 75-86

Dates

published

2013-05-01

online

2013-06-01

Contributors

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Miha Marič

• Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kidričeva 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

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Jasmina Žnidaršič

• Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kidričeva 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

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Miha Uhan

• Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Vlado Dimovski

• Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Marko Ferjan

• Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kidričeva 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

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Maja Djurica

• Belgrade Business School, 73 Kraljica Marija Street, 1000 Belgrade, Serbia

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Mitja Jeraj

• JP Projekt, d.o.o., Trata XIV 6, 1330 Kočevje, Slovenia

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Matej Janežič

• National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/orga-2013-0011