- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 1
- Entrepreneurial Bac...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 31. Juli 2007
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2007-045
- Schlagwort(e)
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founders’ backgrounds
habitual entrepreneurs
human capital
pre-entry capabilities
spin-offs
start-up Success
- Zusammenfsg.
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We examine whether founders’ backgrounds influence new firm survival in the early years after start-up. We develop hypotheses linking founders’ backgrounds to pre-entry capabilities associated with entrepreneurial human capital, highlighting the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. The subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is also explored. We find that specific human capital more frequently found in spin-off founders plays a key role in enhancing survival chances, while more general forms of human capital may help inexperienced entrepreneurs overcome the barrier posed by the critical early years after start-up.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- entrepreneurship
- JEL-Classification for JER
- D21 - Firm Behavior ; L10 - General ; M13 - New Firms; Startups