survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …

-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses … the extent to which the self-employed are self-employed out of necessity, opportunity, lifestyle decision or occupational … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic …

employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set … between motives, survival rates and entrepreneurial development. We find in particular that start-ups out of opportunity and …

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. …

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship – education – and approximately three times larger than …