Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Schutjens, V.
Author-Name-Last: Schutjens
Author-Name-First: Veronique
Author-Name: Stam, F.C.
Author-Name-Last: Stam
Author-Name-First: Erik
Title: Starting Anew: Entrepreneurial Intentions and Realizations Subsequent to Business Closure
Abstract: We know that most businesses fail. But what is not known is to what extent failed ex-entrepreneurs set up in business again. The objective of this article is to explore potential and realized serial entrepreneurship. Based on three disciplines – psychology, labour economics, and the sociology of careers – we formulated propositions to explain (potential) serial entrepreneurship. We tested these propositions empirically with a longitudinal database of 79 businesses that had closed within 5 years after start-up. A large majority of the ex-entrepreneurs maintained entrepreneurial intentions subsequent to business closure, while almost one in four business closures were followed by a new business (serial entrepreneurship). Our results show that the determinants of restart intention (potential serial entrepreneurship) and actual restart realization (realized serial entrepreneurship) are different. Ex-entrepreneurs who are young, who worked full-time in their prior business, and who recall their business management experience positively are likely to harbour restart intentions. Only ‘being located in an urban region’ transpired to have a significant effect on the start of a new business. Although entrepreneurial intentions are a necessary condition for the start of a new business, this study shows that the explanation of entrepreneurial intentions is distinct from the explanation of new business formation subsequent to business closure.
Creation-Date: 2006-03-29
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/7638/ERS%202006%20015%20ORG.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2006-015-ORG
Classification-JEL: M, M13, O32
Keywords: Business Closure, Entrepreneurial Intentions, New Business Formation, Serial Entrepreneurship, The Netherlands
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:7638