Self-Employment and Wealth Creation

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe; Leicht, René

doi:10.5367/000000001101298828

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“…"Die-hard entrepreneurs" (Burke et al, 2005) are those actors, who are portrayed in public discourse and also in economics as those agents, who are dynamic, willing to expand and to engage in risk taking. Conversely, those selfemployed actors who do not meet with this image, but who are the majority of people in terms of self-employment numbers, seem to be rather neglected (Bögenhold et al, 2001;Bögenhold and Fachinger 2007). Since most of the theories in economics are based upon the observation of a dozen of giant firms (Stigler, 1949), one has to turn attention to the real world of the economy with the majority of firm owners who are part-time workers and part-time entrepreneurs (Leicht 2000).…”

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Micro-Entrepreneurship: Tendency towards Precarious Work? Empirical Findings for Austria

Bögenhold¹,

Klinglmair²

2015

AJBE

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The complex interaction of technological development, globalisation and socio-demographic change has accelerated a structural change in the economy, resulting in a changing working environment and new forms of employment. In the field of self-employment, an emerging trend can be observed towards one-person enterprises, which already represent more than 50 percent of all Austrian companies. The primary aim of this paper is to analyse the rationalities of these microenterprises based on an empirical online survey of one-person enterprises in Carinthia; the focus of the analysis is the motive for being self-employed. We found evidence that one-person entrepreneurs are mainly driven by motives like selfrealization or working without hierarchies. However, there are also one-person entrepreneurs who have been crowded out from the (dependent) labour market and are therefore driven by economic reasons (e.g. self-employment as an alternative to unemployment). This economically driven group of one-person enterprises is comparatively dissatisfied with their professional situation, is less optimistic regarding their entrepreneurial future, and generates lower incomes.

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Micro-Entrepreneurship: Tendency towards Precarious Work? Empirical Findings for Austria

Bögenhold¹,

Klinglmair²

2015

AJBE

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“…The idea of blurred boundaries is intended to capture the ways in which journalism is increasingly difficult to define, and how traditional notions of journalism have been upended in the digital age (Loosen, 2015). Empirical work suggests that journalism is a fluid concept that now means many things, and that the definition of journalism is changing over time (Bögenhold and Fachinger, 2013). For example, many contributors to social networks, including Instagrammers, can be considered to be creating work that is journalism (Maares and Hanusch, 2020).…”

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Layoffs, inequity and COVID-19: A longitudinal study of the journalism jobs crisis in Australia from 2012 to 2020

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In Australia and beyond, journalism is reportedly an industry in crisis, a crisis exacerbated by COVID-19. However, the evidence revealing the crisis is often anecdotal or limited in scope. In this unprecedented longitudinal research, we draw on data from the Australian journalism jobs market from January 2012 until March 2020. Using Data Science and Machine Learning techniques, we analyse two distinct data sets: job advertisements (ads) data comprising 3698 journalist job ads from a corpus of over 8 million Australian job ads; and official employment data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Having matched and analysed both sources, we address both the demand for and supply of journalists in Australia over this critical period. The data show that the crisis is real, but there are also surprises. Counter-intuitively, the number of journalism job ads in Australia rose from 2012 until 2016, before falling into decline. Less surprisingly, for the entire period studied the figures reveal extreme volatility, characterised by large and erratic fluctuations. The data also clearly show that COVID-19 has significantly worsened the crisis. We then tease out more granular findings, including: that there are now more women than men journalists in Australia, but that gender inequity is worsening, with women journalists getting younger and worse-paid just as men journalists are, on average, getting older and better-paid; that, despite the crisis besetting the industry, the demand for journalism skills has increased; and that, perhaps concerningly, the skills sought by journalism job ads increasingly include ‘social media’ and ‘generalist communications’ skills.

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“…In conclusion, a wealth of literature suggests that geographical and location-specific facilities, smart resources and market accessibility, tolerance and creativeness, knowledge production and commercialization, and the adoption of a modern business lifestyle (see, e.g., Bögenhold et al, 2001;Romijn and Albu, 2002;Yamoto and Hirose, 2007;Winters, 2011;Glaeser et al, 2010) are important drivers of the performance levels of CIs. This holds in particular for the availability of information and communication technologies and modern and sustainable transport and logistic systems, especially for attracting and retaining these firms and for recruiting talented people in vibrant environments in modern and networked agglomerations.…”

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In Search of Creative Champions in High-Tech Spaces - A Spatial Application of Strategic Performance Management

Kourtit

Nijkamp

2013

SSRN Journal

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The business performance of firms in the creative high-tech sector shows much variation. This paper examines whether the geographical location of such business firms influences the performance of these firms. The overarching analysis framework of this paper emerges from the recently developed Strategic Performance Management (SPM) concept for individual firms, which in the present study is extended with spatial meso-attributes related to the location of these firms. SPM aims to improve the firms' competitive performance through the application of strict internal management principles. Our study thus adopts a micro-business perspective on the organizational determinants of a firm's economic performance and its links with distinct spatial entrepreneurship conditions and general economic moderator variables. The present study focuses on both large and small and medium-sized (SME) firms, mainly operating in the creative high-tech sector in the Netherlands. The research methodology uses stepwise the following analytical tools: multivariate analysis of an extensive microand meso-data set on the internal performance of firms and regional covariates; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and its recent extension to super-efficient DEA for mapping out in a comparative way the achievements of both regions and firms; a GIS-oriented statistical analysis to identify geographically-discriminating factors in the firms' performance; and the design and estimation of a Structural Equations Model (SEM) for assessing the performance of the firms concerned (using what is called the 'flying disc' model). Our results show significant differences in the performance of large vis-à-vis SME firms that have adopted SPM, while their geographical position in the country, in general, also plays a significant role.

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Self-Employment and Wealth Creation

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

Micro-Entrepreneurship: Tendency towards Precarious Work? Empirical Findings for Austria

Micro-Entrepreneurship: Tendency towards Precarious Work? Empirical Findings for Austria

Layoffs, inequity and COVID-19: A longitudinal study of the journalism jobs crisis in Australia from 2012 to 2020

In Search of Creative Champions in High-Tech Spaces - A Spatial Application of Strategic Performance Management

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