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Do hiring strategies change in successive entrepreneurial stints?
DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Our paper uses confidential employer–employee linked data maintained by Statistics Denmark (DST). DST regulations prohibit us from making these data available to unauthorized users. We will be happy to provide further information regarding the application procedure to get access to these data, as well as any necessary details regarding the datasets created for this paper (e.g., list of variables created by the authors and main codes used to reproduce our results).
We go way back: Affiliation‐based hiring and young firm performance
1 INTRODUCTION Though ample evidence exists on how startup success depends on founders' attributes (Gruber et al., 2024; Honoré, 2022), young firms' performance also relies on subsequent hiring of valuable employees (Agarwal et al., 2016; Choi et al., 2023). However, we still know relatively little about how young firms succeed in mobilizing their first hires and how these impact the new venture (Agarwal, 2019; DeSantola & Gulati, 2017; Hietaniemi et al., 2024).
Do Employees Work Less for Female Leaders? A Multi-Method Study of Entrepreneurial Firms
Abstract We propose that female-founded ventures receive a lower amount of employee labor for equal pay because employees are more likely to decline requests for additional labor by female founders. First, using longitudinal matched employer-employee data covering all founders of new ventures with personnel in Portugal between 2002 and 2012, we confirm that full-time employees contribute fewer regular hours and less overtime work to female-founded firms.
Founders can influence joiners to become founders too
Founders can influence joiners to become founders too Women are substantially underrepresented in the areas of new venture creation and entrepreneurship. Using Danish data, this column examines an important social interaction that has been relatively overlooked as a possible influence on entrepreneurship choices – the relationship between bosses and employees in start-up firms.
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