Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about...

Innovationen und Entrepreneurship -- Innovationen und Steuersysteme -- Rahmenbedingungen der Steuerpolitik in der EU -- Steuern, Innovationen, Entrepreneurship und Wachstum -- Empirische Analyse der Innovationsaktivität in Europa.

Martin Heibel analyzes founder turnover in German venture capital backed start-up companies. He develops two unique data sets specifically assembled through an experiment and an online survey. His in-depth analyses cover antecedents and performance implications of founder turnover. They combine...