TOO SICK TO START: ENTREPRENEUR'S HEALTH AND BUSINESS ENTRY IN TOWNSHIPS AROUND DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA.
TOO SICK TO START: ENTREPRENEUR'S HEALTH AND BUSINESS ENTRY IN TOWNSHIPS AROUND DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA.
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病重而无法开始：企业家的健康和南非德班周边城镇的商业进入。
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10.1142/s108494671000152x
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2010
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Pauly,MarkV
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Chao,Li-Wei;Szrek,Helena;Pereira,NunoSousa;Pauly,MarkV
与拥有管理团队的大公司不同，小企业通常由一个关键人物经营，即所有者兼企业家，他承担了几乎所有的风险，并做出了与企业相关的大部分决策。因为所有者-企业家也体现了大部分企业特有的知识资本，所以所有者-企业家的健康是生产过程中的一个重要因素。在为期三年的时间里，我们跟踪了南非德班周围城镇的一群受访者，调查了一个人的身体健康与创业决定之间的关系。我们的结果表明，新进入企业的受访者比没有创业的受访者健康状况更好。此外，在研究开始时没有企业的受访者，在研究期间后来开设企业的受访者，比那些从未开始新企业的受访者更有可能拥有更好的基线健康。因此，企业家的健康状况似乎是进入小企业的重要先决条件。
Unlike large firms with management teams, small businesses are usually run by one key person, the owner-entrepreneur, who bears almost all of the risks and makes most of the decisions related to the business. Because the owner-entrepreneur also embodies most of the firm-specific knowledge capital, health of the owner-entrepreneur is an important factor in the production process. Following a cohort of respondents in townships around Durban, South Africa, over a three-year period, we examined the relationship between an individual's physical health and the decision to start a business. Our results suggest respondents who were recent business entrants were in better health than respondents who did not start new businesses. Moreover, respondents without a business at the beginning of the study who later opened businesses during the study interval were significantly more likely to have better baseline health than those respondents who never started a new business. Hence, good health among entrepreneurs seems to be an important prerequisite to small business entry.