Roy Thurik

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the EIM Research Reports reference number H201114 publication July 2011 number of pages 15 email address corresponding author rth@eim.nl address EIM Bredewater 26 P.O. box 7001 2701 AA Zoetermeer The Netherlands Phone: +31(0)79 322 22 00 All the research reports are available on the website www.entrepreneurship-sme.eu.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated if and in what way social entrepreneurs are hampered in turning their efforts into sustainable organizations using binary logit regressions and unique data containing approximately 26,000 individual-level data points for 36 countries, assessing the influences of perceived environmental barriers, risk variables, and socio-demographic variables on the probability of being a social entrepreneur versus a commercial entrepreneur.

TL;DR: Van der Zwan et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress, defined as an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: "never thought about starting a business", "thinking about it", "taking steps", "running a young business" and "running mature business".

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between sales and floorspace in small retail establishments, which is of importance for retail planning, shop design, efficiency diagnosis, evaluation, and evaluation of the role of assortment composition, environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aimed at explaining female entrepreneurship from a country perspective, using three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation, and on female entrepreneurship.