This study investigates the effects of human capital, social capital and their interaction on the performance of 1 … effect on new-firm performance. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013 …

larger stream of social benefits than industry start-ups, a performance premium. This paper outlines the arguments explaining … why the social costs of entrepreneurship are likely to be higher for academic entrepreneurs, and empirically investigates … the existence of a performance premium using a sample of German start-up companies. We find that university spin …

A model is developed to explain why most firms die in the first few years of trading. A risk averse entrepreneur with …

if and how team diversity in USOs affects the performance of this special group of newly founded firms. We test our … related to networks and financial resources and affects the performance. In addition, our study reveals the direct and … indirect effects of team diversity on success in USOs. This way we contribute to the ongoing discussion on performance …

ethical and competitive performance; and, (3) whether those effects are contingent on a firm’s entrepreneurial characteristics … SME’s ethical performance, and that the performance effects are contingent on an SME’s degree of entrepreneurial …, roles, and performance effects of ‘higher-than-operations-level’ capabilities is likely underestimated in current dynamic …

Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short- and long-term business performance, as …, learning opportunities and learning behaviours are related to three outcome measures: a performance outcome (goal achievement …