Moving on from nascent entrepreneurship: measuring cross-national differences in the transition to new business ownership

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• 作者：Heiko Bergmann (1)
  Ute Stephan (2)
  
• 关键词：Entrepreneurial process ; Nascent entrepreneurship ; Transition ratio ; Birth rate ; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ; Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics ; L26 ; M13 ; O57
• 刊名：Small Business Economics
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：December 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：41
• 期：4
• 页码：945-959
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• 作者单位：Heiko Bergmann (1)
  Ute Stephan (2)
  
  1. Swiss Research Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, University of St. Gallen, Dufourstrasse 40a, 9000, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  2. Institute of Work Psychology (IWP) and the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED), University of Sheffield Management School, Mushroom Lane, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
  
• ISSN：1573-0913

文摘

Nascent entrepreneurship and new business ownership are subsequent stages in the entrepreneurial process. We illustrate how information from the largest internationally harmonized database on entrepreneurship, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project, can be used to approximate the entrepreneurial process. We make a methodological contribution by computing the ratio of new business ownership to nascent entrepreneurship in a way that reflects the transition from nascent to new business ownership and provides cross-nationally comparable information on the efficiency of the entrepreneurial process for 48 countries. We report evidence for the validity of the transition ratio by benchmarking it against transition rates obtained from longitudinal studies and by correlating it with commonly used entrepreneurship indicators and macro-level economic indices. The transition ratio enables future cross-national research on the entrepreneurial process by providing a reliable and valid indicator for one key transition in this process.