R
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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Success and risk factors in the pre-startup phase
TL;DR: In this article, a sample of 517 nascent entrepreneurs (people in the process of setting up a business) was followed over a three-year period, and it was established that 195 efforts were successful and that 115 startup efforts were abandoned.
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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries and found that the factors had a differential relative impact on the number of female entrepreneurs and the share of women in the total number of entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneurship : determinants and policy in a European-US comparison
TL;DR: In this article, Verheul and Wennekers present an Eclectic Theory of Entrepreneurship: Policies, Institutions, and Culture, which is used to understand entrepreneurship across countries and over time.
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle
Philipp Koellinger,Roy Thurik +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found new empirical regularities in the business cycle in a cross-country panel of 22 OECD countries for the period 1972 to 2007; entrepreneurship Granger-causes the cycles of the world economy.
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Entrepreneurship and its Determinants in a Cross-Country Setting
Andreas Freytag,Roy Thurik +1 more
TL;DR: The relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other than economic factors are at play as mentioned in this paper, and the results show that country specific (cultural) variables seem to explain the preference for entrepreneurship, but cannot explain actual entrepreneurship.