Entrepreneurial ventures rely not only on founders, but also on “joiners” – start-up employees who are attracted to entrepreneurship but who do not want to be founders themselves. Drawing upon both preference and contextual theories of entrepreneurship, we examine how individuals’...

This article investigates the influence of informal and formal institutions on the university students' decision of becoming employer entrepreneurs (university students that create a new firm with employees) in the context of Catalonia. A sample of 1207 students from the Universitat Autònoma de...

Objective: This article aims to verify the influence exerted by the performance of human resources on university entrepreneurship. Research Design & Methods: The methodology used in the research was cross-sectional, observational, and explanatory. Regarding the sample used, 434 university...

Despite the evidence on the positive effect of venture capital (VC) on portfolio firm performance, such evidence badly pulls up alongside the non-negligible number of entrepreneurial firms that chooses to refuse VC. This is the first study that investigates the determinants behind the missed...

We investigate if and to what extent the receipt of a “selective” public subsidy - a public subsidy awarded through a competitive procedure - acts as a quality signal and helps new technology-based firms (NTBFs) to access R&D alliances. In particular, we theoretically enquire and empirically...

With the widespread use of online platforms and digital technologies, entrepreneurship is gaining tremendous traction, especially in the digital world. However, the entrepreneurship literature is full of studies on traditional entrepreneurship intentions, while little is known about digital...

Entrepreneurship has declined among younger households, those headed by somebody less than 50 years old, while it has increased among older households over the past two decades. We explore whether this divergence in entrepreneurial activity could be linked to different experiences with income...

The renewed scholarly interest in the craft-based mode of competition, work, learning and innovation suggests that there are some unique aspects of the craft's way of doing business. Using a large panel data set, the present paper takes a closer look at this issue by examining the personality...