"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...

"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...

Wie sich an vielen Beispielen in den neuen Bundesländern gezeigt hat, ist es durchaus möglich, daß ein hoher Bestand an technologischem Wissen ohne großen ökonomischen Erfolg einhergeht. Die Autorin versucht, diesen Widerspruch mit Hilfe des Konzepts der "unternehmerischen Kompetenz" zu...