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The Canadian Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics

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New Business Creation

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship ((ISEN,volume 27))

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The objectives of the Canadian National Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics Financial support for the project came from two sources: Industry Canada, Entrepreneurship & Small Business Division, which supported the initial screening; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada which provided funding for all phases of the ERA II, The study of Nascent and Growing Enterprises project.were three-fold:1.To determine how the economic and social context, individual and personal factors, and household features affect the emergence of individuals trying to start new firms.2.To understand the procedures and strategies involved in assembling resources to implement new firms and the subsequent effect on firm birth, survival, and growth.3.To improve the effectiveness of educational and assistance programs, enhance the impact of government policies, and contribute to the creation of a more efficient entrepreneurial engine.

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  1. 1.

    Financial support for the project came from two sources: Industry Canada, Entrepreneurship & Small Business Division, which supported the initial screening; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada which provided funding for all phases of the ERA II, The study of Nascent and Growing Enterprises project.

  2. 2.

    This first phase of data collection has been conducted by a major Canadian polling firm, SOM (Gallup), from February 9 to March 20, 2000.

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    Start-ups with a positive monthly cash flow that covered expenses and the owner-manager salaries for more than 3 months were considered infant firms and dropped from the sample at that stage.

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  1. Gerald Schwartz School of Business and Information Systems, Department of Business Administration, St. Francis Xavier University, 5000, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, B2G 2W5

    Monica Diochon

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  1. George Mason University, Fairfax, 22030, Virginia, USA

    Paul D. Reynolds

  2. Survery Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Richard T. Curtin

Appendix

Appendix

The relevant questions from the self-administered mail questionnaire used in measuring the use of heuristics are:

H9. Consider two types of new businesses. Assuming you are the sole owner, which situation would you prefer? (CHECK ONE BOX ONLY)

  1. * 1.

    ALPHA – A business that would provide a good living, but with little risk of failure, and little likelihood of making you a millionaire

  2. * 2.

    BETA – A business that was much more likely to make you a millionaire but had a much higher chance of going bankrupt

H10. If you could obtain more information to make a choice between businesses ALPHA and BETA, how important would each of the following be? (CIRCLE ONE FOR EACH ROW)

 

1 = Unimportant

2 = Somewhat important

3 = Very important

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The chances of going bankrupt for both ALPHA and BETA

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The exact amount of earnings if ALPHA and BETA were successful

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The time and effort required to manage ALPHA and BETA

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The experience of those managing businesses like ALPHA and BETA

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Your feelings about the type of business activity represented by ALPHA and BETA

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Diochon, M., Gasse, Y., Menzies, T. (2011). The Canadian Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics. In: Reynolds, P., Curtin, R. (eds) New Business Creation. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 27. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7536-2_3

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