different types of individual owners, i.e. owner-managers and non-manager individual shareholders, on the performance of high … performance. However, whereas owner-managers engender low horizontal agency costs, non-manager individual shareholders generate …-tech entrepreneurial firms show that the number of owner-managers has a positive effect on firm performance, whereas the effect of the …

This paper is an empirical analysis of the personal characteristics of Italian high-tech entrepreneurs. We analyze … whether entrepreneurs in Internet related activities differ from those operating in other ICT industries (especially in … manufacturing). For this purpose, we analyze a sample composed of 246 entrepreneurs that between 1984 and 1999 established 116 new …