The Relationship between Search Engines and Entrepreneurship Development: A Granger-VECM Approach
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The Relationship between Search Engines and Entrepreneurship Development: A Granger-VECM Approach
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Olumekor, M.
Haddad, H. Al-Ramahi, N. M. |
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DEVELOPMENT
ENTREPRENEURSHIP GRANGER INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEUR INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE SMALL BUSINESS SMALL BUSINESS SOLE PROPRIETOR SOLE TRADER BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR ERROR CORRECTION INTERNET SOCIAL MEDIA STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT RUSSIAN FEDERATION UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES |
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The decision to set-up a business as a sole proprietor—also individual entrepreneur or sole trader—is a consequential one for every nascent entrepreneur. Sole proprietorship businesses have remained the most popular business structure in many countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, and are vital to the sustainable development of countries and regions. In this research, we developed a model to investigate if increased online interest in sole proprietorships led to the creation of new sole proprietorship businesses in four regions of Russia. Search engine data were retrieved from Russia’s most popular search engine, Yandex, whereas data on newly registered individual entrepreneurship businesses were retrieved from Russia’s Federal Tax Service. Our model was comprised of a range of statistical methods, including the augmented Dickey–Fuller unit root test, the Johansen cointegration test, the Granger causality Wald test, and the vector error correction model. The results revealed a unidirectional causal relationship between search engine data and newly established individual entrepreneurship businesses. This means that interest in individual entrepreneurship, measured through search engine data, influenced the creation of new individual entrepreneurship businesses. This research provides a pioneering empirical investigation of the topic in post-Soviet states, and its main contribution includes introducing search engine data as a key tool for assessing entrepreneurial intention. © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Minobrnauka; Ural Federal University, UrFU; Zarqa University, ZU Funding: The authors are grateful to Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan for the financial support granted to cover the publication fee of this article. Additionally, author M.O. acknowledges funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Ural Federal University project within the Priority-2030 program). |
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2024-04-05T16:32:39Z
2024-04-05T16:32:39Z 2023 |
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Article
Journal article (info:eu-repo/semantics/article) |info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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Olumekor, M, Haddad, H & Al-Ramahi, NM 2023, 'The Relationship between Search Engines and Entrepreneurship Development: A Granger-VECM Approach', Sustainability, Том. 15, № 6, 5053. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065053
Olumekor, M., Haddad, H., & Al-Ramahi, N. M. (2023). The Relationship between Search Engines and Entrepreneurship Development: A Granger-VECM Approach. Sustainability, 15(6), [5053]. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065053 2071-1050 Final All Open Access, Gold https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85171482929&doi=10.3390%2fsu15065053&partnerID=40&md5=d7b0d24b8ba5f014ad740a8105536c65 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/6/5053/pdf?version=1678696063 http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/130784 10.3390/su15065053 85171482929 000959040000001 |
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en
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Open access (info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess)
cc-by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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application/pdf
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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Sustainability
Sustainability (Switzerland) |
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