RSS 1.0International Review of Entrepreneurship: Volume 14, Issue 1, 2016
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Job Creation by the Solo Self-Employed During the First Years of Business
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Among a cohort of solo self-employed in the Netherlands starting their business in 2008, we investigate how many of them employed at least one employee three years later, i.e., in 2011. We also investigate the determinants ... -
Explaining Investment Dynamics: Empirical Evidence from German New Ventures
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)So far, empirical evidence regarding investment patterns has focused almost entirely on established firms, and mainly in the manufacturing sector. No theory for investment has been empirically tested for new ventures. Using ... -
Post-privatisation Governance and Corporate Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Although the former communist countries that have been transitioning to market-oriented reforms share various common features (Peng 2000, World Bank 2002), they follow different paths and pursue the transition at different ... -
Article Strategic Organizational Development and Growing Pains: Empirical Evidence from Europe
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Previous work by Flamholtz et. al. empirically assesses the validity of a model of organizational success and failure. However with the exception of one study in China, previous research was only conducted on individual ... -
Human Capital as a Driver of Innovation Among Necessity-Based Entrepreneurs
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)Although often treated as one group, necessity-based entrepreneurs are heterogeneous in terms of their backgrounds, ambitions and performance. For instance, some of them introduce new products or services to the market ... -
Is Venture Capital Performance Affected by Recessions? Evidence from the UK Venture Capital Trust Scheme
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2016)This paper seeks to explore whether firms that have received VC investment are subject to the same recessionary pressures as other small firms, or if receipt of VC incurs resilience to macroeconomic turbulence. It examines ...
