BibSonomy publications for /user/free2fail/empiricalWed Jul 30 16:00:39 CEST 2008Small Business Economicsmay3213--225Network Support and the Success of Newly Founded Business101998empiricaL entrepreneurship YalePaper socialNETWORKS The "network approach to entrepreneurship" is a prominent theoretical perspective within the literature on entrepreneurship. This literature assumes that network resources, networking activities and network support are heavily used to establish new firms (network founding hypothesis). Further, those entrepreneurs, who can refer to a broad and diverse social network and who receive much support from their network are more successful (network success hypothesis). Based on a study of 1,700 new business ventures in Upper Bavaria (Germany), the article gives an empirical test of the network success hypothesis. It is argued that one reason, why previous studies did not consistently find positive network effects, may be that social capital (network support) is used to compensate shortfalls of other types of capital (human capital and financial capital). This compensation hypothesis, however, does not find empirical confirmation. On the other hand, however, the network success hypothesis proves to be valid in our analyses, i.e. network support increases the probability of survival and growth of newly founded businesses. ER -Mon Mar 24 05:59:38 CET 2008Octoberw0047Who Are China's Entrepreneurs?Working Papers2005economics china entrepreneurship empirical Mon Mar 24 00:53:12 CET 2008The Economic Journalmar32511--72Surveys in Applied Economics: Technical Progress821972technicalPROGRESS economics empirical entrepreneurship Mon Mar 24 00:50:52 CET 2008The American Economic Reviewjun3519--535Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship791989empirical economics entrepreneurship data Sun Mar 23 23:51:45 CET 2008World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development1-223 - 35Consumer trust and its effect on sustainable e-commerce development in China22006trust empirical webSURVEY china adoption ecommerce Whilst China is the largest single world economy, e-commerce has been relatively slow to develop, especially within consumer markets. In more advanced e-economies such as the USA the switch between traditional retail sales and e-sales is growing all the time and is predicted to be as high as 10%. If only a small percentage of retail sales in China were switched to e-commerce, the potential market in China is immense. In addition, in terms of international competitiveness, the risks of not participating in what is such an increasing important global arena are also high. Therefore, the development of a long term and sustainable e-commerce environment is of great importance to China's economy. Whilst there are many practical reasons why e-commerce development has been slow, this study examines the barriers from a consumer's perspectives using empirical data collected from Chinese consumers via the internet.Sun Mar 23 22:08:58 CET 2008Omega#feb#122--38Consumer trust in e-commerce in the United States, Singapore and China352007empirical culture webSURVEY trust china ecommerce This study examines the antecedents and consequences of consumer trust in the United States, Singapore and China. The results show that reputation and system assurance of an Internet vendor and consumers' propensity to trust are positively related to consumer trust. Consumers' trust has a positive relationship with attitude and a negative relationship with perceived risk. Implications of the results are discussed.