Business startup motives and satisfaction among Swedish selfemployed

Birgitta Eriksson, Patrik Larsson and Mark Saruckij

World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2006, vol. 2, issue 4, 295-308

Abstract: This article investigates if satisfaction with being selfemployed is affected by whether the decision to become selfemployed has been made by choice or by force. After a literature review, the hypothesis was that pull factors lead to higher satisfaction than push factors among the selfemployed. A survey answered by 1040 selfemployed (62% of the sample), shows interesting results since both groups of startup motives lead to equally high levels of satisfaction. These results support a government's strategy to encourage and stimulate people to start a business both in times of economic recession and unemployment as well as during economic prosperity.

Keywords: self-employment; entrepreneurship; business startups; motivation; satisfaction; push factors; pull factors; Sweden; new ventures. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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