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| Author: | Gelderen, M. van Sluis, L. van der Jansen, P. |
| Title: | Learning opportunities and learning behaviours of small business starters: Relations with goal achievement, skill development and satisfaction |
| Journal: | Small business economics
2005 : AUG, VOL. 25:1, p. 97-108 |
| Index terms: | Entrepreneurship New enterprise Small business Learning Performance appraisal Netherlands |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study investigates when and how small business (hereafter as: s-b.) starters (here as: s-b-strs.) learn. It specifies the situations offering learning (here as: lrng.) opportunities (here as: opps.), as well as the lrng. behaviours (as: behavs.) that s-b-strs. can employ to learn from these opps. In a cross-sectional, quantitative study of recently started s-b. founders, lrng. opps. and lrng. behavs. are related to three outcome measures: a performance outcome (goal achievement), a personal growth outcome (skill development), and an affective evaluation outcome (satisfaction). The results show the importance of lrng. opps. and lrng. behavs. in influencing these outcome variables, albeit not always in the hypothesized directions. |
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