Factors influencing the entrepreneurial engagement of opportunity and necessity entrepreneurs
By Peter van der Zwan, Roy Thurik, I. Verheul, J. Hessels. Eurasian Business Review, 2016
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The scholarly literature often distinguishes between so-called opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship and between “pull” and “push” motivations. Despite the pervasive use of this terminology, empirical analyses are mostly based on a single country. The present paper contributes by investigating business owner survey data for the United States and 32 countries in Europe and Asia. We analyze the differences between business owners motivated by opportunity and necessity in terms of their (1) socioeconomic characteristics, (2) personality, and (3) perceptions of entrepreneurial support. Descriptive statistics reveal that the two groups of business owners have very different profiles along these three dimensions. Moreover, multinomial logit regressions indicate that the determinants of business ownership (versus paid employment) differ for opportunity and necessity business ownership. A specific result of the present study (covering all 33 countries) is that the probability of being an opportunity versus a necessity business owner is higher for male, younger, wealthier, proactive, and optimistic business owners. Furthermore, those who prefer being a business owner and those who have more favorable perceptions of financial start-up support are more likely to be an opportunity versus a necessity business owner.
Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation
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- Perceived public support and entrepreneurship attitudes: A little reciprocity can go a long way! (2020, background): “However, entrepreneurs' perception of available support may have a greater bearing on their intention and decisions than the real scale of support programmes (Isenberg, 2011; Saeed, Yousafzai, Yani - De - Soriano, & Muffato, 2015; Van der Zwan, Thurik, Verheul, & Hessels, 2016).”
- Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation (2018, unknown): “For example, Block and Koellinger (2009) use this definition in an online survey in Germany, Kautonen and Palmroos (2010) in a survey of recently established Finnish micro enterprises, and Van der Zwang et al. (2016) in the Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship.”