Based on a database of 200 listed firms from the Growth Enterprise Market of China, this paper employs regression models to investigate the significance of IPO capital expenditure to firms' operating performance. It suggests that a vast majority of pre-IPO money is spent on business development...

Explores whether specific cognitive attributes of potential entrepreneurs can be used to predict future startup success and persistence in business startup activities. Two hypotheses are proposed and tested: (1) potential entrepreneurs who offer internal and stable explanations (attributions)...

The disparity between the number of men and women who become self-employed has been investigated through previous research.This study, however, examines the start-up processes of Norwegian male and female nascent entrepreneurs to understand better those characteristics that influence the success...