Based on the finding that entrepreneurs who found new firms tend to work as employees of small rather than large firms prior to start-up, we test how different working conditions, which enhance entrepreneurial learning, affect their decision to become entrepreneurs when moderated by firm size....

The author, a legal scholar, reviews academic literature regarding and otherwise relevant to the study of female entrepreneurship from across multiple disciplines. She reports that the legal academy has only minimally engaged in entrepreneurship scholarship and not at all as to female...

Many scholars have noted that there has been a leadership crisis in both the political and business worlds. It may not be a coincidence that leaders have tended to be males. Throughout recorded history women have participated in important leadership roles – even during antiquity. This paper...

In den letzten Jahren ist in Forschung und Praxis ein zunehmendes Interesse an unternehmerisch orientierten MitarbeiterInnen, sogenannten IntrapreneurInnen, zu beobachten. Der vorliegende Artikel beschreibt ein Modell fuer Intrapreneurship in der beruflichen Erstausbildung (Lehre), das empirisch...

Competence frameworks are increasingly used in several practice fields and have been an object of research. A typical development trend has been encapsulation into a particular field, not considering the developments in related fields. Similarly, in research, learning from neighbouring...

We use an inductive approach to understand what types of founders’ human capital, at individual and team levels, are necessary to recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. A sample of 195 founders who teamed up in the nascent phases of Cleantech and Interned-based sectors is...

By considering entrepreneurs who hire employees – employers – and entrepreneurs without personnel – own-account workers – as related but distinct groups within entrepreneurship, this work analyzes the roles of different factors in entrepreneurship survival in Europe from a new...

We investigate how a transition from paid employment to self-employment in the labor market influences life satisfaction. Furthermore, we consider the dynamics of work and leisure satisfaction because the balance between work and leisure is an important element of life satisfaction....

Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with theirjobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satised with their lives as awhole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life,such that the fullling job...