The Influence of Firm Characteristics and Export Performance in Central and Eastern Europe : Comparisons of Visegrad, Baltic and Caucasus States

• Autorzy: Marian Holienka , Anna Pilková , Michal Munk
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Objective: The main goal of our paper is to analyse business restarts in Visegrad countries on an individual level and to identify key drivers of restart activity from among perceptual variables.

Research Design & Methods: The analysis is based on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data. We employ descriptive statistics to analyse the quantitative aspect of business restart and regression modelling to identify its drivers.

Findings: Our findings proved that business discontinuation and consequent restart are both integral parts of entrepreneurship in V4 countries. Entrepreneurial selfefficacy and fear of failure, together with gender and age, proved to have a significant relationship with individual restart activity.

Implications & Recommendations: The individual perceptual variables as components of entrepreneurial potential, as well as the issue of inclusiveness, proved to play an important role in business restart.

Contribution & Value Added: Our study is the first comprehensive analysis of the under-researched topic of business restart in the V4 region. In addition to highlighting its importance as an integral part of entrepreneurial dynamics in V4 countries, it also identifies individual-level drivers of this specific type of entrepreneurial activity. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Entrepreneurship; Enterprise management; Enterprise behaviour

PL

Przedsiębiorczość; Zarządzanie przedsiębiorstwem; Zachowania przedsiębiorstw

• Czasopismo: Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 2
• Numer: nr 1 Global Entrepreneurship from the European Perspective
• Strony: 37--48

Twórcy

autor

Marian Holienka

• Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

autor

Anna Pilková

• Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

autor

Michal Munk

• Comenius Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

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DOI

10.15678/EBER.2014.020104