Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

Mirjam van Praag compares and contrasts the economic theory of entrepreneurship with determinants of successful entrepreneurship derived from empirical evidence, in an attempt to discover what makes for an accomplished entrepreneur. The author's state-of-the-art historical, theoretical and...

Uit recent onderzoek blijkt dat ondernemers hun opleiding vaak veel productiever kunnen inzetten dan werknemers, omdat ze meer vrijheden en beslissingsbevoegdheden hebben: het rendement op opleiding is hoger voor ondernemers dan voor werknemers. Het is daarom tijd voor meer aandacht voor...

This book suggests how that exploration should be undertaken, and how a monitoring system that has a solid conceptual basis and is both easy to operate and reasonable in cost can then be put into practice. Long the ideal of many scholars and observers of urban problems, such a system may now be...