We examine the role of regional formal and informal institutions in the intention-behavior link in entrepreneurship. Using multilevel regression analyses on a longitudinal sample of university students embedded in 40 European regions, we find evidence that regional formal and informal...

This article reviews and systematises prior studies focusing on the differences between young and old people in entrepreneurship. This study highlights that the young are different in several areas: accumulation of resources and skills; psychological, cognitive and motivational attributes; and...

Understanding financial strategies and patterns of new firms is crucial to the theoretical unraveling of the entrepreneurial process as well as to the elaboration of appropriate support programs from practitioner and policy maker. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether a pecking order...

The main objective of this chapter is to critically embrace the heterogeneity of university-based companies, to describe the peculiarity of their founding team (as a form of resource transferred from the university) and to analyze differences in performance among different typologies of...

To study the interplay between age and culture as driver of self-employment motivation, we examine cross-sectional age differences (young to late adulthood) in self-employment desirability and feasibility beliefs across different cultures. We utilize individual-level data from the 2012 Flash...

We investigate how perceived parents' performance in entrepreneurship (PPE) affects the entrepreneurial career intentions of offspring. We argue that while perceived PPE enhances offspring's perceived entrepreneurial desirability and feasibility because of exposure mechanisms, it inhibits the...

The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between entrepreneurship and change in technological domains, with the focus on possible causal relations in both directions. It aims at investigating how technological changes generate opportunities that entrepreneurs or...

The paper investigates the role of Top Management Teams (TMTs) characteristics behind market performance of IPOs on a secondary market. After highlighting the main differences between entrepreneurial and managerial companies, we identify effective drivers related to TMT characteristics able to...

The paper investigates the existence of a pecking order in new technology-based firms (NTBFs) financing, and provides an evidence on factors determining what source of capital NTBFs try to access. The authors pay particular attention to aspects of human capital such as age, education and...