Factors Contributing to the Success of Start-Up Firms Using Two-Point or Multiple-Point Scale Models

Miettinen, Marika; Littunen, Hannu

doi:10.1515/erj-2012-0012

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“…The individual's experience is one of the variables that researchers have most frequently found to be significant with regard to distinguishing between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs. Moreover, if the first experience has something to do with starting a business activity during the individual's youth, this makes the individual more likely to start another entrepreneurial activity later on (Miettinen and Littunen 2013). This study employs a dummy variable for business experience (0 = no, 1 = yes).…”

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Entrepreneurship Education and Disability: An Experience at a Spanish University

Muñoz

Martín

García-Pardo

et al. 2019

Administrative Sciences

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The European Commission considers the following groups of entrepreneurs: females, family businesses, liberal professions, migrants, and seniors. Disabled people are not included, and this paper could, therefore, open up a new field of research and an important issue to be considered among the European Union’s social objectives. The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in Spain provides an entrepreneurship education course, “Entrepreneurship and disability,” for disabled students. It is the first time that a course with these characteristics has been taught at a Spanish University, which signifies that there is no similar research of this nature. Keeping in mind its originality, this study makes an important contribution to the field. The main objective is to analyze whether the motivation to start up a business differs between students with disabilities and those without. We analyzed “before” and “after” data in order to test the potential impact of entrepreneurship education on the students’ entrepreneurial attitude. An analysis of variance with several demographic variables has allowed us to prove that the education that students received, their business experience, and their field of study have significant effects. This statistical test showed no significant differences between disabled and non-disabled students.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship Education and Disability: An Experience at a Spanish University

Muñoz

Martín

García-Pardo

et al. 2019

Administrative Sciences

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“…The individual's experience is one of the factors that authors have most frequently found to be significant as regards distinguishing between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs. Moreover, if the first venture has something to do with starting a business activity during the individual's youth, this makes this person more likely to begin another entrepreneurial activity later [14].…”

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Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Disability: A New Challenge for Universities

2020

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There is a considerable amount of research concerning the issue of entrepreneurial intentions, which has attained mixed findings. Integrating sustainability, in the sense of considering disabled people, into the current entrepreneurial intention research makes it possible to fill an important research gap. The main objective of this paper is to clarify the contribution that education, students’ traits, and contextual factors make to an individual’s entrepreneurial intent when disabled students are incorporated into the analysis as an innovative field of study. The aim of this research is to analyze the entrepreneurial intentions of disabled people who are studying in higher education and compare them with non-disabled students while considering the main factors described in previous studies. In order to achieve this objective, we have carried out a logistic regression with a sample of Spanish students. The main findings are: Education does not influence students’ entrepreneurial intentions, which are affected by only some of the students’ traits and background conditions. Regarding the disabled students’ entrepreneurial intentions, we have found no significant differences compared with those of students who are not disabled. Initiatives such as those of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) described in the paper should, therefore, be encouraged, keeping in mind that disabled students do not always show a lack of confidence in themselves as some studies have claimed.

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“…Nevertheless, there is a group of factors which potentially explain business survival while also pertaining to the characteristics of the entrepreneur, that is, human capital. Regarding human capital theories, the most significant for business survival are education, prior professional career and experience, and personal characteristics, like age, gender, or the number of children (Arribas & Vila, 2007; Åstebro & Bernhardt, 2005; Block et al, 2012; Boyer & Blazy, 2014; Dutta et al, 2011; Gimeno et al, 1997; Habibov et al, 2017; Miettinen & Littunen, 2013; Saridakis et al, 2008). The accumulation of human capital supports the growth of entrepreneurial knowledge and skills which enable a business to be run continuously.…”

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Is it the survival of the fittest or of the jacks-of-all-trades? Business survival in the light of Lazear’s theory

Mackiewicz

Kurczewska

2020

BRQ Business Research Quarterly

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In this article, we apply a proportional hazard model to analyze the determinants of success in a large sample of 1,656 entrepreneurs and former entrepreneurs. We base our research on the theory of entrepreneurship by Edward Lazear, according to which individuals with broad educational and professional experience, in comparison to specialists, are more likely to become entrepreneurs. We extend this theory by verifying whether breadth of education and professional career also contribute to the likelihood of entrepreneurial success. According to our findings, breadth of education not only influences the propensity to start a business but also positively influences the chances of business survival. The breadth of professional experience proved to have a significant impact on business survival, but this result did not hold for extensive managerial experience. JEL CLASSIFICATION: L26, J24.

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Factors Contributing to the Success of Start-Up Firms Using Two-Point or Multiple-Point Scale Models

Cited by 15 publications

References 80 publications

Entrepreneurship Education and Disability: An Experience at a Spanish University

Entrepreneurship Education and Disability: An Experience at a Spanish University

Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Disability: A New Challenge for Universities

Is it the survival of the fittest or of the jacks-of-all-trades? Business survival in the light of Lazear’s theory

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