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The chapters in The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics provide the rationale for questionnaires used in the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED). The PSED is a research program that was initiated to provide systematic, reliable, and generalizable data on important features of the new business creation process. The PSED includes information on the proportion and characteristics of the adult population involved in efforts to start businesses, the activities and characteristics that comprise the nature of the business start-up process, and the proportion and characteristics of those business start-up efforts that actually become new businesses. The handbook also describes the PSED data collection process; provides documentation of the interview schedules, codebooks, data preparation and weighting scheme; as well as offers examples of how analyses of PSED data might be conducted. The authors identify specific measures that can be used to operationalize theory as well as provide evidence from the PSED data sets on these measures’ reliability and validity.
Career Reasons
Career Reasons
As outlined in Kolvereid (1996b), the reasons that potential entrepreneurs offer for getting into business should have a significant influence on whether they actually engage in entrepreneurial activity (Krueger & Brazeal, 1994). New businesses are not created by accident. There is enough impeding the process involved in business startup to suggest that entrepreneurial actions are clearly intentional. Reasons for getting into business (or not), therefore, matter because reasons are traditionally considered to be the basis of intentions (Shaver, 1985). More than a few studies of the new venture creation process describe individuals persisting at a variety of activities over a period of months, or years, in order to achieve the creation of a new firm (Carter, Gartner, & Reynolds, ...
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