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 …

Onderzoeksbureaus als Van Teeffelen en Hobeon voorspelden de HBO-jurist een gouden toekomst bij onder meer advocatenkantoren, rechtbanken, verzekeringsmaatschappijen en banken, Wat is er misgegaan?

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 …

Investering in sociale innovatie duikt op in verschillende regio’s, zoals Brabant, Zeeland, Limburg (D’havé en Rooijackers, 2012), NoordNederland en Utrecht (Bolland, Gründemann en Renkema, 2013). Ze richten zich op economische stimulering langs andere wegen dan technologische innovatie en ze concentreren …

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 …

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) …

Letting go of the firm or “my baby” as some entrepreneurs describe their creation, leads to a certain amount of stress (Rahim 1996, Kets de Vries 1999). Dealing with stress in singular events as the transfer of a business, is hardly been subject of research (Uy et al. 2012). Improving coping strategies …

Het Kenniscentrum Innovatie en Business ziet in ondernemerschap een sleutel om het innovatievermogen van de Utrechtse economie te vergroten. Steeds meer wordt onderkend dat ondernemerschap of een ondernemende houding van groot belang is voor onze studenten, de toekomstige professionals. Daarom stellen …

The objective of this study is to shed light on the added value of the services of five disciplines in M&A advisory in the SME domain: accountants, bankers, business brokers, fiscalists and lawyers. Theory is inconclusive in the added value of advisory services and research on the subject is hardly …

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 …