I Can't Get No Satisfaction-Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility

By Jörn H. Block, Philipp Koellinger. 2008

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

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Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach (2010, background): “Block and Koellinger (2009) distinguish between necessity entrepreneurship and opportunity entrepreneurship, and observe that necessity entrepreneurs have a lower average satisfaction with their startup than opportunity entrepreneurs, and also that a long period of unemployment is negatively…”
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy (2013, background): “They have also been found to be healthier, less prone to negative feelings and depression, and to experience flow and ‘procedural utility’ (Block and Koellinger 2009).”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, unknown): “An alternative explanation could lie in self-employed individuals being a heterogeneous group of people and only certain forms of self-employment might be conducive for subjective wellbeing, for example when individuals pursue entrepreneurial opportunities as opposed to being forced into self-employ”
What motivates entrepreneurial entry under economic inequality? The role of human and financial capital (2015, unknown): “There is evidence that necessity entrepreneurship provides no satisfaction to the entrepreneurs (Block and Koellinger, 2009).”
Can You Gig It? An Empirical Examination of the Gig Economy and Entrepreneurial Activity (2018, unknown): “Received research has argued that un- and underemployed individuals pursue entrepreneurial activity because they have significantly lower opportunity costs than someone who is fully employed (Block and Koellinger 2009, Fairlie 2002, Storey 1991).”
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.”
Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being (2021, background): “Opportunity entrepreneurs, on the other hand, gain greater subjective benefits from their career choice than necessity entrepreneurs (Block & Koellinger, 2009; Carree & Verheul, 2012; Larsson & Thulin, 2019), which may make them more likely than necessity entrepreneurs to over- engage in work by…”
Robustness of the Theory of Planned Behavior in Predicting Entrepreneurial Intentions and Actions (2015, background): “We further inquired about the respondent’s labor market status and educational attainment, which prior studies have identified as factors that influence entrepreneurial activity (Block & Koellinger, 2009; Fini et al., 2012; Le, 1999).”
Education and entrepreneurial choice: An instrumental variables analysis (2010, unknown): “One particularly promising avenue concerns the discussion of necessity, opportunity and involuntary entrepreneurship (Block and Koellinger, 2009; Block and Wagner, 2010; Kautonen et al., 2010).”
Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy (2014, unknown): “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, unknown): “Necessity entrepreneurs, for example, were shown to have a lower work satisfaction than other types of entrepreneurs (Block and Koellinger 2009).”
What Makes Entrepreneurs Happy? Determinants of Satisfaction Among Founders (2012, background): “This result was recently confirmed by Block and Koellinger (2009) for German nascent entrepreneurs.”
Entrepreneur motivations and life course (2013, background): “Non-economic motivations are often most powerful (Benz and Frey, 2008; Block and Koellinger, 2009).”