Closure and Exposure: Mechanisms in the Intergenerational Transmission of Self-employment

By Jesper B. Sørensen. 2007

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

How Do CEOs See Their Roles? Management Philosophies and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms (2013, unknown): “…effect for related CEOs, while founder CEOs are 17% more likely to have had a father who owned a business at the 10% significance level, which fits with the entrepreneurship literature’s finding that a major determinant of self-employment is parental self-employment (e.g., Sørensen, 2007).”
The Impact of the Family Background on Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: An Empirical Analysis (2020, background): “Sørensen [21] found that children with self-employed parents are twice as likely to become self-employed, but there is little evidence (from Danish data) to show that these young people become independent because they have privileged access to the financial or social capital of their parents, or…”
Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship (2010, unknown): “Second, we provide further evidence of the importance of the workplace in the entrepreneurial process (Freeman 1986, Burton et al. 2002, Wagner 2004, Dobrev and Barnett 2005, Gompers et al. 2005, Sørensen 2007a, Elfenbein et al. 2010, Parker 2009).”
Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurial Entry (2007, background): “Their higher self-employment rate is at least in part due to the impact of the parents’ self-employment on their children’s aspirations and job values (Sørensen, 2007).”
Parents’ performance in entrepreneurship as a “double-edged sword” for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship (2017, unknown): “34 seem to have a relevant effect, in line with previous studies showing that there is little evidence to suggest that the children of entrepreneurs enter self-employment because they have privileged access to financial or social capital (Aldrich et al. 1998; Sørensen 2007) Finally, future research ”
Social influence in career choice: Evidence from a randomized field experiment on entrepreneurial mentorship (2017, background): “…an individual’s likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur increases with exposure to startup careers via social relationships such as familial ties (Sørensen, 2007; Greenberg, 2014), school networks (Stuart and Ding, 2006; Roach and Sauermann, 2015; Sauermann and Roach, 2012), and coworkers…”
Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children? (2012, methodology): “, Sørensen (2007) found an effect of similar size in Denmark.”
Biology and Selection into Entrepreneurship—The Relevance of Prenatal Testosterone Exposure (2016, background): “…models for their children, but may also pass their family businesses to their children and may additionally provide resources such as financial capital, general human capital, or business- and industry-specific knowledge (Dunn & Holtz-Eakin, 2000; Lindquist, Sol, & van Praag, 2012; Sørensen, 2007).”