This literature study reviews 300 academic publications on digital matching platforms, SME business transfers and the underlying drivers for success in matching and business transfers. How to build digital trust, how to select partners digitally and how to predict survival of digital matching platforms …

This paper explores 14 traditional coping strategies by Carver et al. in an entreperneurial setting of 880 business owners. Findings indicate that business owners in the process of selling their business may cope differently with stress than business owners that are not. They specifically seem to cope …

The aim of this study was to determine the similarities and differences in social network characteristics, satisfaction and wishes with respect to the social network between people with mild or borderline intellectual disabilities (ID), people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and a reference group. …

Full text via link. Interview met Lex van Teeffelen. Van Teeffelen is lector bedrijfsoverdracht en innovatie. Dat zal veel mensen niet zo aantrekkelijk in de oren klinken. Want bedrijfsoverdrachten, dat klinkt al gauw als iets ingewikkelds met veel geld en zo. Niet iets reëels voor een student. Dan ligt …

Between 2009 and 2013 a project has been executed in the Utrecht region to strengthen the workplace innovation capacity of SMEs (My Company 2.0). The participating companies were asked to fill in a questionnaire on the workplace innovation capacity of the company at two moments: at the beginning (T0) …

This research focuses on exit choices within SMEs. In this study, “exit choice” refers to the decision to opt for either liquidation or sale of the firm. The predictions focus on human-capital and firm-resource variables. The hypotheses are tested on a set of 158 owners of small firms, the majority of …

This paper investigates whether students change their entrepreneurial entry preference if they are presented with different options. We propose that students’ entry preferences are mediated by concepts proposed by threshold theory: choice options, opportunity costs and psychic income. This study is exploratory …

Het verslag beantwoord de volgende hoofdvraag: Hoe moet SBS zich op de objectbeveiligingsmarkt verder ontplooien om meer zekerheid en continuïteit te creëren voor de toekomst?

Interview met Lex van Teeffelen. Er zijn tal van programma’s om starters en innovatieve bedrijvigheid te stimuleren, maar aandacht voor bedrijfsoverdracht is er amper. Het is lector Lex van Teeffelen al jaren een doorn in het oog. ‘Een overgenomen bedrijf krijgt vaak een impuls en presteert daardoor …