Lean and hungry or fat and content? Entrepreneurs' wealth and start-up performance

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1242-1258

  Hvide, Hans K ^a   Møen, Jarle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial motivation; Entrepreneurship; Financial constraints; Liquidity; Organizational slack; Profitability; Start ups; Survival

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATION; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS; LIQUIDITY; ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK; START-UPS; SURVIVAL;

ECONOMICS; MOTIVATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 77955631215     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1177     Document Type: Article

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