Entrepreneurship is an increasingly relevant and popular object of scholarly investigation. In this dissertation, I … creation process. The purpose of this dissertation is to refine our understanding about perceptions in entrepreneurship through … four essays. The first essay of the dissertation investigates entry into entrepreneurship. More specifically, I look at the …

organizations to exploit its business potential. Entrepreneurship is connected to existing organizations because the phenomenon of … employees, thus overlooking the dynamic and transitory nature of entrepreneurship. This thesis consists of three essays on … entrepreneurship that integrate the labor market literature with the entrepreneurship research. The first essay considers the …

entrepreneurship, the literature does not provide a clear answer to these questions. This can partly be due to the inherent difficulty … in answering them by resorting to observational studies. People can select into entrepreneurship because of their …