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This article profiles East and West German entrepreneurs based on an aggregate approach to international comparisons of entrepreneurship. Given previous research about “adolescent entrepreneurs” in economies in transition and “adult entrepreneurs” in high-developed countries this study links these poles of the international entrepreneurial spectrum. East versus West and men versus women entrepreneurship showed more similarities than differences regarding the entrepreneurial traits, the company’s strategy and its competitive German environment. But applying the same research methodology German entrepreneurs appear less entrepreneurial than their US and Russian counterparts. These findings support the use of integrative approaches within the field of international entrepreneurship research.
Our thanks to Dr. Margarita Tchouvakhina, Dr. Daniel Skambracks and the KfW Group, Frankfurt/Bonn as well as to Othmar Kalthoff and the Konrad-Henkel-Stiftung, Düsseldorf (Germany), and the Mixon/Callahan Fund (USA) which made it possible to access and analyze the data that forms the basis of this study.
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Grichnik, D., Hisrich, R.D. (2005). International Entrepreneurship: The Case of the Unified Germany. In: Achleitner, AK., Klandt, H., Koch, L.T., Voigt, KI. (eds) Jahrbuch Entrepreneurship 2004/05. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26823-5_5
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