Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and Their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data

By J. Block, Philipp G. Sandner. 2009

405 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. J. Hessels
2. Roy Thurik
3. Peter van der Zwan
4. I. Verheul
5. Karl J. Wennberg
6. Frank M. Fossen
7. Isidoro Romero
8. Lucio Fuentelsaz

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. J. Hessels
2. Roy Thurik
3. Peter van der Zwan
4. I. Verheul
5. Frank M. Fossen
6. Karl J. Wennberg
7. R. Fairlie
8. Lucio Fuentelsaz

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Roy Thurik
2. Peter van der Zwan
3. J. Hessels
4. I. Verheul
5. Karl J. Wennberg
6. Juan A. Martínez-Román
7. Isidoro Romero
8. Frank M. Fossen

Citations in the corpus

• Factors influencing the entrepreneurial engagement of opportunity and necessity entrepreneurs (2016, background): “Block and Sandner (2009) investigate what the impact of opportunity or necessity motivation is on self-employment duration in Germany.”
• Why Family Matters: The Impact of Family Resources on Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Exit from Entrepreneurship (2016, positive): “…we observed that more education increases exit from entrepreneurship to paid employment (at the 10 % level of significance), which is consistent with prior research on necessity entrepreneurship indicating that potential employers appreciate education (Block and Sandner, 2009; Hjerm, 2004).”
• Necessity or Opportunity? The Effects of State Fragility and Economic Development on Entrepreneurial Efforts (2019, neutral): “Necessity-based entrepreneurship (NEC) is often linked to informal activities, unemployment, economic recession, and poverty (Acs & Amorós, 2008; Banerjee & Duflo, 2007; Block & Sandner, 2009; Gries, & Naudé, 2011).”
• Determinants of innovativeness in SMEs: disentangling core innovation and technology adoption capabilities (2017, background): “There is evidence that indicates that opportunity entrepreneurs have a longer professional career (Block and Sandner, 2009), while necessity entrepreneurs are more dissatisfied with their work even if they obtain benefits (Cotterill, 2012).”
• What turns knowledge into innovative products? The role of entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers (2009, neutral): “In fact, prior research shows that many entrepreneurs start their venture out of economic necessity (Block and Sandner 2009; Block and Wagner 2010).”
• The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success (2014, neutral): “…see e.g. Bates, 1990; Brüderl et al., 1992; Cooper et al., 1994; Robinson and Sexton, 1994; Kangasharju and Pekkala, 2002; Barringer et al., 2005; Saridakis et al., 2008; Van der Sluis et al., 2008; Block and Sandner, 2009; Van Praag et al., 2009a; Baptista et al., 2011 and Hartog et al., 2010b).”
• Formal Institutions and Opportunity Entrepreneurship. The Contingent Role of Informal Institutions (2019, background): “Some studies analyze the type of entrepreneurship but they do not take into account the institutional component (Acs, 2006; Block and Sandner, 2009).”
• Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation (2018, positive): “6 A related approach used by Block and Sandner (2009) and Block and Wagner (2010) uses information on how the person who becomes an entrepreneur exited from the previous wage and salary job.”
• Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy (2014, neutral): “They also differ in human capital endowment, venture success, job satisfaction, and impact on economic development (Acs and Varga 2005; Bergmann and Sternberg 2007; Block and Koellinger 2009; Block and Sandner 2009; Kautonen and Palmroos 2010; Wong et al. 2005).”
• How Do Risk Attitudes Differ within the Group of Entrepreneurs? The Role of Motivation and Procedural Utility (2015, neutral): “Past research has shown that opportunity entrepreneurs differ from necessity entrepreneurs in a number of aspects, such as income from entrepreneurship, duration in self-employment, job satisfaction, regional context, and socioeconomic characteristics (Bergmann and Sternberg 2007; Block and Sandner ”