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A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size
Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A simple occupational choice model is used to predict that entrepreneurs who found new firms are more likely to work for small than for large firms prior to start-up. The mechanism underlying the result is heterogeneous risk aversion. The model also predicts a positive association between new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763463
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The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy
Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233799
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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?
Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209489
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies … under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition by assigning students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377189
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The Entrepreneur’s Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start
Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs’ entry mode. The new venture creation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703388
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The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What we Don't
Parker, Simon C. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
entrepreneurship. It is designed primarily to showcase to young entrepreneurship scholars several interesting research questions and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864997
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 48 (2017) 2, pp. 287-302
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748825
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Smart or diverse start-up teams? : evidence from a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - In: Organization science : a journal of the Institute for … 28 (2017) 6, pp. 1010-1028
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791134
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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190989
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Ability dispersion and team performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies … under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition by assigning students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348405