Entrepreneurial exit and entrepreneurial engagement

Journal of Evolutionary Economics - Tập 21 - Trang 447-471 - 2010
Jolanda Hessels1,2, Isabel Grilo3,4, Roy Thurik1,2,5, Peter van der Zwan2
1EIM Business and Policy Research, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
2Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
3DG Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
4CORE Université Catholique de Louvain Louvain, Belgium
5GSCM-Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France

Tóm tắt

This paper investigates whether and how a recent entrepreneurial exit relates to subsequent engagement. We discriminate between six levels of engagement including none, potential, intentional, nascent, young and established entrepreneurship. We use individual-level data for 24 countries that participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor during 2004, 2005 and 2006 (some 350,000 observations). Our findings indeed show that a recent exit decreases the probability of undertaking no entrepreneurial activity, whereas it substantially increases the probabilities of being involved in all other engagement levels. Investigating the conditions under which an exit increases engagement in entrepreneurial activities, we find that the probability of entrepreneurial engagement after exit is higher for males, for persons who know an entrepreneur and for persons with a low fear of failure. Educational attainment does not seem to be relevant. Moreover, there exists large cross-country variation in the probability of entrepreneurial engagement after exit.

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