Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 7 / 2010 (548)
The Evolution of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity Influencing Factors in Romania
Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
Ágnes NAGY
Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
Lehel-Zoltán GYÖRFY
Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
Annamária BENYOVSZKI
Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
Tünde Petra PETRU
Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
Abstract. The aim of the article is to analyze the main influencing factors of the probability of becoming an early-stage entrepreneur in Romania. The analyzed factors are: gender, age, education, household income, work status, network, opportunity perception, perception regarding the trust in own entrepreneurial skills, perception on the society’s appreciation regarding the principle of equality in life standard, perception on the society’s appreciation regarding the entrepreneurial career, perception on the proper promotion of entrepreneurial successes by mass media. We estimate a logit model for each year of the 2007-2009 period and we study the main influencing perceptional and sociodemographic factors, based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Adult Population Survey database for Romania.
Keywords: entrepreneurship; early-stage entrepreneurs; influencing factors; perceptional factors; socio-demographic factors; logit model; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.
Contents
- The Evolution of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity
Influencing Factors in Romania
Ştefan PETE
Ágnes NAGY
Lehel-Zoltán GYÖRFY
Annamária BENYOVSZKI
Tünde Petra PETRU
- Quantitative Methods for Evaluating the Informal
Economy. Case Study at the Level of Romania
Tudorel ANDREI
Daniela ŞTEFĂNESCU
Bogdan OANCEA
- SMEs Financing: the Extent of Need
and the Responses of Different Credit Structures
Daniel BĂDULESCU
- Input-Output Analysis and Demographic Accounting:
A Tool for Educational Planning
Ioan Eugen ŢIGĂNESCU
Nora MIHAIL
Mihaela Tania SANDU
- Old Wine in New Bottles: Saving – Growth Nexus:
Innovative Accounting Technique in Pakistan
Muhammad SHAHBAZ
Rana Ejaz Ali KHAN
- Some Socio-Economic Effects of Labor Migration
on Sending Countries. Evidence from Romania
Monica ROMAN
Cristina VOICU
- Performance of Financial Control
Ionel BOSTAN
- Private Pensions in Romania.
Management - Marketing - Effects and Expectations
Elena ENACHE
Sorin ENACHE