Jolanda Hessels

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of the three stages of economic development, the factor-driven stage, the efficiency-driven and the innovation-driven stages, and present a summary of the papers in the context of the theory.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between socioeconomic variables and entrepreneurial aspirations and found 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide indications of the presence and importance of entrepreneurial role models, the function of these role models and the similarity between the entrepreneur and the role model, and the strength of their relationship.

TL;DR: A systematic review of comparative international entrepreneurship (CIE) research is presented in this paper, highlighting the importance of multi-country studies of entrepreneurial activity in enabling the comparison and replication of research and generating meaningful contributions to scholarship, practice, and policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the differences between business owners motivated by opportunity and necessity in terms of their socioeconomic characteristics, personality, and perceptions of entrepreneurial support, and found that 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.