Peter van der Zwan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated why women's self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men, and found that women's lower preference for becoming self-employed plays an important role in explaining their lower involvement in self employment.

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.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether and how a recent entrepreneurial exit relates to subsequent engagement and found that the probability of entrepreneurial engagement after exit is higher for males, for persons who know an entrepreneur and for persons with a low fear of failure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated differences in work-related stress between the self-employed and wage workers and found that selfemployed individuals with employees experience more stress than those without employees because of higher job demand.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the influence of firm characteristics on SMEs' environmental behavior and found that different characteristics have dissimilar influences on both types of environmental practices such as the type of customers served.