Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32605 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2009,080
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation decisions at the individual level with the strength of the intellectual property rights regime at the national level. The results suggest that the strengths of the intellectual property regime will moderate negatively the relationship between an individual's education and her growth aspirations and moderate positively the relationship between an individual's income and her growth aspirations. The findings support claims that strategic entrepreneurial behavior cannot be fully understood without giving attention to the context in which those behaviors are observed.
Subjects: 
strategic entrepreneurship
multi-level analysis
intellectual property protection
growth aspirations
JEL: 
L26
J24
C3
M13
F5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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