performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

How much of entrepreneurial performance is sheer luck compared to talent, experience, education, and hard work? We … define luck as unexpected performance and look for an answer in a large survey of entrepreneurs. Accordingly, luck ranks last … in importance among various success factors and accounts for less than one third of performance variation. This ranking …

performance? For an answer we rely on a unique survey of 63,202 individuals. Luck perceptions shape decisions. Individuals who … importance among various determinants of overall entrepreneurial performance. One possible reason is that entrepreneurs do not …

We use investment-level data to study performance persistence in venture capital (VC). Consistent with prior studies … preferential access raises the quality of subsequent investments, perpetuating performance differences in initial investments …

VC firm experience only relates positively to performance when outstanding (e.g. 3rd generation fund or above). However …

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …