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Roy Thurik

Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Publications -  411
Citations -  34875

Roy Thurik is an academic researcher from Erasmus University Rotterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Per capita income. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 405 publications receiving 31531 citations. Previous affiliations of Roy Thurik include Econometric Institute & Indiana University.

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The association between lower educational attainment and depression owing to shared genetic effects? Results in ~25,000 subjects.

Wouter J. Peyrot, +324 more
- 26 Jun 2015 - 
TL;DR: An association of lower EA and MDD risk is confirmed, but this association was not because of measurable pleiotropic genetic effects, which suggests that environmental factors could be involved, for example, socioeconomic status.
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Industry Evolution: Diversity, Selection and the Role of Learning

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how institutional and evolutionary economics provide better insights as to why some firms survive and others do not than does neoclassical economics, and they use a Dutch data set and a model on who survives and who doesn't to explain this role.
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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used six different models based on the established literature to explain the total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) and found that there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship while the remaining effects mainly stay the same.
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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries is examined. But the authors focus on the negative relationship between GDP per capita and business ownership, suggesting that risingopportunity costs of entrepreneurship are the dominant perception.
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Blue Ocean Versus Competitive Strategy: Theory and Evidence

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a methodological synthesis of the theories enabling them to bring statistical evidence to the debate and find that blue ocean and competitive strategies overlap and managers do not face a discrete either/or decision between each strategy.