This resesarch evaluates the relative importance ofseveral categories of variables in explaining startup success. A sample of 517 nascent Dutch entrepreneurs was identified in 1998 (from data collected by the Entrepreneurial Research Consortium), and tracked for three years. W.B. Gartner's...

The question of which factors contribute to success or failure in starting a business is investigated utilizing Gartner's (1985) framework, which suggests that start-up efforts differ with regard to characteristics of the individual who starts the venture, the organization they create, the...

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal data set of some 50 Dutch startups. The results suggest a dynamic process between strategy and performance.A discrimination is made...

The relationship is investigated between outcome status and encountered problems in the business start-up process. Contrary to expectations, we find that starters do not differ from quitters in number and type of problems encountered, and that problems encountered generally do not affect outcome...