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Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers

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Hessels, Jolanda, van Gelderen, Marco, Thurik, Roy·2008·Small Business Economics
DOI 10.1007/s11187-008-9134-x
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Several drivers of entrepreneurial aspirations and entrepreneurial motivations are investigated using country-level data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) for the years 2005 and 2006. We estimate a two-equation model explaining aspirations using motivations and socioeconomic variables, and explaining motivations using socioeconomic variables. We find that countries with a higher incidence of increase-wealth-motivated entrepreneurs tend to have a higher prevalence of high-job-growth and export-oriented entrepreneurship and that a country’s level of social security relates negatively to the prevalence of innovative, high-job-growth, and export-oriented entrepreneurship. We also find that the increase-wealth motive mediates the relationship between socioeconomic variables and entrepreneurial aspirations.

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Authors
Hessels, J., van Gelderen, M., & Thurik, R.
Venue
Small Business Economics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2008-09-04
Volume
31
Issue
3
Pages
323-339
ISSN
  • 0921-898X (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-0913
DOI
10.1007/s11187-008-9134-x
OpenAlex
W2147786258
Cited by
678
References
87
FWCI
28.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
hybrid

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