The Causes of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Discontinuance

Lukeš, Martin; Zouhar, Jan

doi:10.18267/j.pep.534

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“…Finally, our study is one of the first to verify the nature of the gender gap between family succession and other occupational choices for actual behaviour, vs. entrepreneurial intentions (Zellweger et al 2011;Schröder et al 2011). Longitudinal studies on nascent entrepreneurship confirm that a large proportion of nascent entrepreneurs do not go on to found a business (Lukeš and Zouhar 2016). Thus we contribute to past research by examining actual rather than intended career choice among young people.…”

Section: Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

2020

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This study adapts a multi-level view of culture, including society- and family-based gender norms and the family embeddedness perspective, to predict the career status of a sample of 2897 young Europeans (aged 18–35) from 11 countries, with at least one self-employed parent. We find that gender identity is associated with career status such that a woman is more likely than a man to be an employee vs. a successor to a family firm but no less likely to be a founder as compared with either being an employee or successor. However, certain family and society-level culture variables combined with gender identity reverse these trends. A woman with caring responsibilities is more likely to be a successor than either a founder or employee. Also, while two-way interaction effects for traditional gender norms and having a self-employed mother are weak or not significant, the study finds that in combination, a woman reporting both traditional gender norms and having a self-employed mother is more likely to be a successor than being either an employee or a founder, reversing gender identity main effects. Incorporating the family embeddedness perspective and the role of culture in occupational choice, we develop a better view of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of these two levels of culture clash. By examining actual rather than intended career choice, we also contribute to the occupational choice literature on youth employment.

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Section: Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

2020

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“…Rates of return are non-stationary increasing or decreasing rapidly as a result of an adjustment process [47]. Innovative start-ups are often seen as key drivers of innovation and the creation of new sustainable jobs [48], but due to the dual responsibility of being both new and small, they also face greater obstacles than larger, better-established firms [49]. The advantage of small and young companies is their potential for growth and job creation [50][51][52].…”

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Business Survival and the Influence of Innovation on Entrepreneurs in Business Incubators

2020

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One of the objectives of this article is to study how innovation influences the results of entrepreneurs located in business incubators. The other objective is to examine how the training of entrepreneurs contributes to creating companies with high sustainability rates over time that are wealth generators in society. To achieve these objectives, entrepreneurs in business incubators in Spain were identified along with their level of training, their experience in business management, how much employment they have generated, their survival rate and the annual accounts (where economic, financial, and management information on the companies is collected). In turn, they were sent a questionnaire that allowed us to classify them by their degree of innovation. The techniques used are independent sample statistics that apply the Levene’s test, the analysis of the balance sheet, the income statements, and management indicators. This study concludes that, from the selected sample, 83.3% of the entrepreneurs established in business incubators in Spain have university training, and 64.2% prefer the branches of science, with 7.75 years of business experience, which favors business survival (100% in the seventh year of life) and the creation of qualified employment. All this favors the sustainability of the productive and business model which, being more intensive in knowledge and R&D, becomes more competitive in the market. On the other hand, there are no significant differences regarding the economic results, nor in the management indicators among the entrepreneurs of the incubators according to their degree of innovation. The value of research lies in the importance of studies on the relationship between innovation, training, and wealth-generating sustainability in incubators in today’s knowledge economy.

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“…The preceding studies presented varying findings about the time spent on the projects. Carter et al (1996), Van Gelderen, Thurik, and Bosma (2005), and Lukeš and Zouhar (2016) suggested that the time spent on the project may have an effect on the outcome status, whereas Gimeno et al (1997) did not find that the number of hours worked influenced the eventual entrepreneurial exits. In our study, the nascent entrepreneurs spent little time on their venture projects and the participants mentioned that they disengaged from the idea in a surprisingly short time: approximately three months after receiving the grant.…”

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A Multilevel Perspective of Nascent Social Entrepreneur Disengagement

Tayşir¹

2021

Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute

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Each year, a significant number of grant programs select, award, and support young social entrepreneurs. However, not all can bring their ideas to fruition; many nascent entrepreneurs terminate their efforts before launching the business. Determining why some individuals continue while others disengage is critical to understanding the entrepreneurial process. This study explores factors affecting nascent social entrepreneurs' decisions to disengage. We interviewed 18 social entrepreneurs who intended to start a social venture but decided to terminate the process. The findings suggest that macro-, meso-, and micro-level factors influence nascent social entrepreneurs' decisions to disengage.

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The Causes of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Discontinuance

Cited by 15 publications

References 45 publications

Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

Business Survival and the Influence of Innovation on Entrepreneurs in Business Incubators

A Multilevel Perspective of Nascent Social Entrepreneur Disengagement

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