Baptista, Rui; Karaöz, Murat; Mendonça, Joana - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 831-847
This paper examines whether founders’ backgrounds influence new firm survival in the early years after startup, focusing, in particular, on the impact of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship. For entrepreneurs who left their previous employment to found a new firm, both general and specific...