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Setting Up a Business in the Netherlands

Thurik, Roy; van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; Bosma, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Why does one person actually succeed in starting a business, while a second gives up, and a third is still trying? To answer this question, a longitudinal study was set up in which 330 nascent entrepreneurs (people setting up a business) were followed over a one-year period. After one year, 47%...

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Postmaterialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations

Thurik, Roy; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

The relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other than economic factors are at play. The objective of this paper is to explore how postmaterialism may explain these differences. A distinction is made between nascent entrepreneurship, new...

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Survival, Look-Ahead Bias and the Persistence in Hedge Fund Performance

Verbeek, Marno; Baquero, G.; ter Horst, ter Horst, J.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

negative survival-related biases are sometimes suggested to cancel out. At horizons of one and four quarters, we find clear …

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Fund liquidation, self-selection and look-ahead bias in the hedge fund industry

Verbeek, Marno; ter Horst, ter Horst, J.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

A wide range of empirical biases hampers hedge fund databases. In this paper we focus upon survival-related biases and …

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"Counting Your Customers": When will they buy next? An empirical validation of probabilistic customer base analysis models based on purchase timing

Korkmaz, Korkmaz, E.; Kuik, Kuik, R.; Fok, Fok, D. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2013

This research provides a new way to validate and compare buy-till-you-defect [BTYD] models. These models specify a customer’s transaction and defection processes in a non-contractual setting. They are typically used to identify active customers in a com- pany’s customer base and to predict...

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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of...

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Start-Up Capital

Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

Female and male entrepreneurs differ in the way they finance their businesses. This can be attributed to the type of business and the type of management and experience (indirect effect). Female start-ups may also experience other barriers based upon discriminatory effects (direct effect)....

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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival

Cefis, Cefis, E.; Marsili, Marsili, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … firm- specific traits such as age and size. Especially process innovation seems to have a distinctive effect on survival …. Furthermore, our results confirm that survival chances increase with age and the growth rate of a firm, the latter representing a …

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The Relationship between Technology, Innovation, and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence on E-Business in Europe

Koellinger, Philipp - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

This article analyzes the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation, and performance at the firm level. Data for the empirical investigation originates from a sample of 7,302 European enterprises. The empirical results show that Internet-based...

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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility

Block, Joern H.; Koellinger, Philipp - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their start-up satisfaction. Our results identify a group of nascent entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up because they did not choose to become...

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