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Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing? [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Labor Economics, 2016
Among typical entrepreneurs, is serial entrepreneurship common? Is the serial entrepreneur more likely to succeed? If so, why? These questions are addressed using data on all establishments started between 1990 and 2011 to sell retail goods and services in Texas. An entrepreneur is the owner of a new business.
Francine Lafontaine, Kathryn Shaw
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A theory of serial entrepreneurship

Small Business Economics, 2009
The contribution of serial entrepreneurs to entrepreneurial activity is significant: in Europe, 18–30% of entrepreneurs are serial; in the US, their contribution is about one-eighth. Yet, theories of entrepreneurship and industry dynamics presume that all firms are launched by novice entrepreneurs and firm failure is synonymous with exit from ...
Jose Plehn-Dujowich
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Serial entrepreneurship: impact of human capital on time to re-entry

Small Business Economics, 2009
This study uses a longitudinal matched employer–employee database to examine how ex-entrepreneurs’ levels of general and specific human capital influence their likelihood of re-entering entrepreneurship over time, in a different firm, thereby becoming serial entrepreneurs.
A. Miguel Amaral   +2 more
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Failing firms and successful entrepreneurs: serial entrepreneurship as a temporal portfolio

Small Business Economics, 2011
Entrepreneurial performance is almost always confounded with firm performance. In this paper we argue for an instrumental view of the firm by formally showing that entrepreneurs can amplify their expected success rates by designing their careers as temporal portfolios that exploit contagion processes embedded in serial entrepreneurship.
Saras D. Sarasvathy   +2 more
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From cultural entrepreneurship to economic entrepreneurship in cultural industries: The role of digital serialization

Journal of Business Venturing, 2021
Abstract Digitization has provided entrepreneurs direct access to consumers in cultural industries while offering intermediaries an alternative to critics' reviews when deciding whether to invest in creative products. Using data from the Chinese online self-publishing industry, we examine whether and how intermediaries use popular acclaim when ...
Jeffery S. McMullen   +2 more
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Cognitive Dispostion for Serial Entrepreneurship

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013
The intention to become a serial entrepreneur can be influenced by both situational and dispositional factors.
Dan Kai Hsu   +2 more
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The Regulatory Fit of Serial Entrepreneurship Intentions

Applied Psychology, 2016
The question why some entrepreneurs self‐select out of entrepreneurial careers following exits from successful and failed businesses is of growing interest to entrepreneurship scholars. Using two studies and Regulatory Fit Theory as the theoretical lens, we address this question.
Sharon A. Simmons   +3 more
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Sensation-Seeking and Workaholism: Implications for Serial Entrepreneurship

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020
Some entrepreneurs are sensation seekers who get pleasure from their engagement of entrepreneurial activities.
Sharon Simmons, Jon C. Carr, Dan K. Hsu
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