Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from … opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity … entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than necessity entrepreneurs. However, after controlling for the entrepreneurs …

define luck as unexpected performance and look for an answer in a large survey of entrepreneurs. Accordingly, luck ranks last … become entrepreneurs. Consistent with the definition, what entrepreneurs believe is luck correlates with the unexplained …

What is luck in the opinion of entrepreneurs, how does it affect decisions, and what role does it play in firm … believe luck is important are reluctant to become entrepreneurs, and those who do exhibit lower commitment. Luck perceptions … importance among various determinants of overall entrepreneurial performance. One possible reason is that entrepreneurs do not …

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of … native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on …. Immigrant entrepreneurs are less than half as likely to found a company in a knowledge-intensive industry as native …