Tekijä: | Delmar, F. Davidsson, P. |
Otsikko: | Where do they come from? Prevalence and characteristics of nascent entrepreneurs |
Lehti: | Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
2000 : JAN/MAR, VOL. 12:1, p. 1-23 |
Asiasana: | Entrepreneurship Companies Sweden Norway USA |
Vapaa asiasana: | Business ventures |
Kieli: | eng |
Tiivistelmä: | In this paper, there is reported on a unique study of a large, random sample of business start-ups that were identified prior to the actual, commercial launch of the ventures. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, to present frequencies on the involvement of the Swedish population in the small business sector and to compare these with estimates from Norway and the USA with a similar research design. Second, the characteristics of nascent entrepreneurs are analysed and compared for sub-groups within the sample and with characteristics of business founders as they appear in theoretical accounts or retrospective empirical studies of surviving small firms. |
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