Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of job satisfaction on the intended retirement age of self-employed and organisationally-employed white-collar professionals. The analysis also examines potential boundary conditions imposed by other domains of life for the...

Principal Topic -- Since the late 1980s researchers have been theorizing about entrepreneurial teams (Kamm, et al., 1990), exploring their existence (Ensley, et al., 1999), discussing their formation and evolution (Virany & Tushman, 1986; Clarysse & Moray, 2004; Ucbasaran, et al., 2005; Forbes, et al., 2006;...

Human resource flexibility is important in entrepreneurial ventures that need to respond to the changing challenges of growing the new business. This research investigates the impact of previously well-known people (strong ties) as entrepreneurial team members on the human resource flexibility...

This research investigates how a strong personal relationship (strong tie) between a small business owner-manager and his professional or informal advisor affects the relationship between the advisor's recent performance and the owner-manager's perceptions of the advisor's trustworthiness in...

Fritsch M. and Mueller P. (2004) Effects of new business formation on regional development over time, Regional Studies38, 961-975. In the analysis of the impact of new business formation on regional employment change, considerable time lags were identified. The structure and extent of these time...

Do economic recessions and high unemployment lead to more business start-ups or are people more likely to become self-employed in periods of economic prosperity? Our analysis for Germany reveals that the cyclical component of real GDP has a negative effect on start-up activities. Moreover, the...

This study documents that the survival of start-ups is central in explaining the relationship between entry and regional employment growth. Distinguishing between start-ups according to the period of their survival shows that the positive effect of new business formation on employment growth is...

This paper analyzes the technology transfer policies that are being developed to reduce the regional disparities in economic growth in China. In particular, these technology transfer policies focus on increasing the innovative activity in central China, in order to spur economic development and...