By stimulating entrepreneurship, the actual goal is especially to stimulate the people who will be successful after starting up their businesses. Considering the great variety within the group of (potential) entrepreneurs, there is need for specific insight in the factors that determine the...

Increasingly, the importance of entrepreneurship and self-employment is being acknowledged by both scientists and policy makers. High degrees of entrepreneurship (innovation) and self-employment (the number of independent enterprises) are assumed to contribute to economic growth and job...

In our study we have extended the human-resource-based theory of the firm to include small enterprises, by intorducing some stylised facts concerning small enterprises: the dominant position of the employer, the lack of 'classical' management styles and a low degree of specialisation within the...