This study utilizes a human capital framework to explore whether business ownership experience is associated with the number of business opportunities identified, the number of identified opportunities that are pursued, and the nature of those opportunities...

Human capital and novice and habitual entrepreneurs -- Data collection and methodology differences -- A human capital approach to entrepreneurship -- Information search and opportunity identification, pursuit, and exploitation by type of entrepreneur -- Firm and entrepreneur performance by type...

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...

Although it has been argued that overconfidence can lead to failure ( Hayward et al., forthcoming ), business failure can undermine assumptions about the self that are integral to (1) confidence in one's decision-making accuracy and (2) the motivation to engage in tasks.

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 --...