The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Startups

By N. Bosma, M. van Praag, Roy Thurik, G. D. de Wit. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Export propensity, export intensity and firm performance: The role of the entrepreneurial founding team (2012, background): “…and advice about foreign markets, leading to the identification and successful exploitation of foreign market opportunities and enhanced firm performance (Davidsson and Honig, 2003; Mosey and Wright, 2007; Mosey et al, 2006; Bosma et al 2004; Yli-Renko et al, 2002; Marvel and Lumpkin, 2007).”
Entrepreneurial exit and entrepreneurial engagement (2011, background): “In addition, exit and survival rates differ substantially across industries (Brüderl et al. 1992; Cressy 1996; Gimeno et al. 1997; Taylor 1999, 2001).”
Entrepreneurial orientation, management commitment, and human capital: The internationalization of SMEs in India (2011, background): “Bosma et al. (2004) notes that in the Netherlands prior experience in an industry substantially improved SMEs' success, growth, and survival.”
Formal Institutions and Opportunity Entrepreneurship. The Contingent Role of Informal Institutions (2019, background): “, 2005; Adachi and Hisada, 2017) and that men obtain better performance and create more jobs (Bosma et al., 2004).”
The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don't (2005, background): “Other possible influences on venture survival and growth have also been explored, including specific marketing strategies [127], sources of finance [22], social capital [35], and organizational structure [104].”
The impact of higher education on entrepreneurial intention and human capital (2018, background): “By considering the widespread breakdown of IC in human, relational and structural (or organisational) capital (Kaufmann and Schneider, 2004), a large stream of the managerial literature (Davidsson and Honig 2003; Bosma et al., 2004; Ployhart and Moliterno, 2011) focuses on the role that is played by”
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities (2015, background): “…in business (Pennings et al., 1998); growth (D. Y. Lee & Tsang, 2001), having sales or positive profits (Davidsson & Honig, 2003), and survival, employment, and/or profits for entrepreneurial firms (Bosma et al., 2004); and long-term performance for established firms (Geletkanycz & Boyd, 2011).”
The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs: Community culture, motivation, self-efficacy and start-up success (2012, background): “8) Entrepreneurial Experience (cf. Bosma et al, 2004, Cronbach’s Alpha in current study .65) H12.”
Nascent Entrepreneurs and Venture Emergence: Opportunity Confidence, Human Capital, and Early Planning (2010, background): “…creation activities, are more proximate and instrumental predictors of various new venture milestones such as opportunity recognition (Corbett, 2007; Ucbasaran et al., 2008), progress through the start-up process (Bruderl et al., 1992; Davidsson and Honig, 2003), and survival (Bosma et al., 2004).”
Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs (2013, background): “…in economics (Becker 1964), human capital theory posits that investments in skills and knowledge pay off in terms of (1) getting a nascent venture up and running (e.g., Davidsson and Honig 2003), (2) venture growth (e.g., Baum and Locke 2004), and (3) profitability (e.g., Bosma et al. 2004).”
Measuring the impact of innovative human capital on small firms' propensity to innovate (2015, background): “Investment in human capital is believed to improve the performance of employees (Bosma et al., 2004).”
The Impact of Human, Social and Financial Capital on the Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa (2011, background): “Bosma et al. (2004) also find that the endowed level of talent of a small business founder is not the unique determinant of performance.”
Human capital and entrepreneurial success: A meta-analytical review (2011, background): “To date, the interest in human capital continues, and most authors conclude that human capital is related to success (e.g., Bosma et al. 2004; Brüderl et al., 1992; Cassar, 2006; Cooper et al., 1994; Dyke, Fischer, & Reuber, 1992; van der Sluis, van Praag, & Vijverberg, 2005).”
Failure factors in small and medium-sized enterprises: qualitative study from an attributional perspective (2010, background): “With regard to prior experience in running a business, positively related with a firm’s success(Gimenoetal.1997 ;M adsen et al.2003; Bosma et al. 2004 ), in Table 3 we see that the majority of firms studied (cases 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8) had no practice or experience in running a business before.”