Three essays on entrepreneurial quality

This dissertation introduces a new method to measure entrepreneurial quality and applies it to three questions of theoretical interest in entrepreneurship. The dissertation is presented in five chapters. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter. It overviews the entrepreneurial quality approach, indicates the key choices made in this dissertation, and explains how researchers can build on this approach for their own applications. Chapters 2 through 4 are specific research applications. Chapter 2 uses this approach to measure the "state of American entrepreneurship" once quality is included. Chapter 3 studies differences in the quality of entrepreneurship by gender and the gender gap in VC financing conditional on quality. Chapter 4 looks at entrepreneurial migration and the quantity and quality of migrants in high growth entrepreneurship across regions. Chapter 5 provides a short conclusion. Extended abstracts are provided at the beginning of each chapter.

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Guzmán, Jorge (Jorge Arturo)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Scott Stern.

• Sloan School of Management.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109662

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/109662