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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 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...

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It's the opportunity cost, stupid!: How self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...

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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Founder's human capital, entry strategies and start-up size

Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Kathrin; Niefert, Michaela - 2009

entry strategies. The four main groups of entry strategies are independency entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship …, spin-out entrepreneurship and necessity entrepreneurship. The results indicate that firms conducting R&D continuously start … new market opportunities as well as spin-out entrepreneurship exhibit a higher initial size while start-ups established …

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Entrepreneurship and Role Models

Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2011

In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...

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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment

Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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