Extending human capital approaches to entrepreneurship, an entrepreneur’s “inputs” relating to their general (i.e. education and work experience) and entrepreneurship-specific human capital profile (i.e. business ownership experience, managerial capabilities, entrepreneurial capabilities...

This review explores the emerging debate relating to habitual entrepreneurs. Habitual entrepreneurs (also known as experienced or, latterly, repeat entrepreneurs) are a widespread phenomenon. An entrepreneur’s business ownership experience may differ according to the number of private...

This exploratory study provides a review of the neglected area of entrepreneurial founder team turnover. A novel distinction is made between entrepreneurial founder team member entry and team member exit. Ninety owner-managed ventures were monitored between 1990 and 2000. Presented hypotheses...

Deniz Ucbasaran, Paul Westhead and Mike Wright use a combination of theory and empirical evidence to illustrate why it is so important for researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and investors to distinguish between novice (i.e. first time) entrepreneurs and habitual entrepreneurs. Issues...

1. Introduction -- 2. Entrepreneur resources : theoretical insights -- 3. Entrepreneur resource profiles -- 4. Entrepreneur resource accumulation : finance -- 5. Entrepreneur resource accumulation : networking and resource orchestration -- 6. Opportunity discovery and creation -- 7. Learning --...

Purpose – This paper aims to identify four “types” of private small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with regard to their “state” along the exporting experience spectrum. Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory study explores survey information from a historic comparative...

Purpose – This exploratory study aims to provide fresh insights into the ownership transfer of private family firms through internal management buy-out (MBO) and external management buy-in (MBI) succession routes. The paper aims to explore if flows of information impact the succession planning...