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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.
Job and Life Satisfaction
Job and Life Satisfaction
AUTHORS' NOTE: We would like to thank Indiana University Kelley School of Business for funding and to acknowledge the support of the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium (ERC) and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for the development of the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) data.
Job satisfaction has always been relatively high among American workers; since the late 1940s, about 80% have said they were “quite satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their jobs or used similar response scales to assess their satisfaction. Likewise, relative to other cultures (e.g., Japan: see Near, 1984), life satisfaction among Americans has been quite high and comparable to life satisfaction among Westerners in general (Near & Rechner, 1993). Given that Americans ...
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