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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.
Overview: The Start-up Process
Overview: The Start-up Process
The chapters in this Part III focus, primarily, on how nascent entrepreneurs engage in the creation and development of new business ventures. Where as entrepreneurs may possess various demographic and cognitive characteristics that increase the likelihood they may successfully create a new business venture, the successful creation of a new business requires action. Entrepreneurs cannot think a business into existence, nor does one's age, income, skills, or abilities provide a “free pass” entitling one to new business ownership. Entrepreneurs must do something, and their actions must involve creating a specific kind of business that fits with the specific social, economic, and environmental context. Accounting for the details of how and what occur in the business formation ...
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