Entrepreneurial backgrounds, human capital and start-up success

Arbeitspapier

We examine whether founders’ backgrounds influence new firm survival in the early years after start-up. We develop hypotheses linking founders’ back-grounds 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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2007,045

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General ; New Firms; Startups
• Thema: Founders’ backgrounds ; Human capital ; Start-up Success ; Pre-entry capabilities ; Spin-offs ; Habitual entrepreneurs ; Unternehmensgründung ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Unternehmer ; Humankapital ; Berufserfahrung ; Portugal

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Baptista, Rui ; Karaöz, Murat ; Mendonça, Joana
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25610
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ