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If you don’t succeed, should you try again? : the role of entrepreneurial experience in venture survival
Gottschalk, Sandra; Greene, Francis J.; Höwer, Daniel; … - 2014
avoiding bankruptcy. Conclusions for entrepreneurship scholars, entrepreneurs and stakeholders are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234047
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Afterlife - who takes heart for restart?
Metzger, George (contributor) - 2006
The performance of young and newly founded firms depends largely to the human capital of the firm owner. The entrepreneur is therefore one of the main success factors for the firm. Yet entrepreneurs differ considerably in their background and characteristics. Particularly, founders’ individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337984
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On the role of entrepreneurial experience for start-up financing : an empirical investigation for Germany
Metzger, Georg (contributor) - 2007
Entrepreneurs are often faced with problems regarding start-up financing. But compared to novice entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs should have both more knowledge and better contacts, which should potentially reduce the occurrence of problems and affect finance composition. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003567056
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Firm closure, financial losses and the consequences for an entrepreneurial restart
Metzger, Georg (contributor) - 2008
Many entrepreneurs who close a business are actually willing to venture anew. However, to realize a restart is not only a matter of willingness on the part of the entrepreneur but also of its feasibility. Regarding the feasibility of a restart, the aspect of capital acquisition might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777860
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Founder's human capital, entry strategies and start-up size
Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Kathrin; Niefert, Michaela - 2009
entry strategies. The four main groups of entry strategies are independency entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship …, spin-out entrepreneurship and necessity entrepreneurship. The results indicate that firms conducting R&D continuously start … new market opportunities as well as spin-out entrepreneurship exhibit a higher initial size while start-ups established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846123
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The effect of broadband infrastructure on entrepreneurial activities : the case of Germany
Heger, Diana; Koomen, Miriam; Veith, Tobias - 2011
This paper investigates whether the local infrastructure favours entrepreneurial activities. Besides the physical and knowledge infrastructure we take into account a county’s broadband availability by building an index which accounts for county-related specificities. We find that broadband...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424075
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries : company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Müller, Elisabeth - 2011
limited access to capital. -- Immigrants ; innovation ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge-intensive industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990888