Articles in international refereed academic journals

​For insights and exercises with regard to the 15 entrepreneurial competencies of the EntreComp, see the website I published with Thomas Lans of the HAN University of Applied Sciences: www.entrecomp.nu.

1. Van Gelderen, M.W. (forthcoming). Developing entrepreneurial competencies through deliberate practice. Education + Training.*      This article describes an entrepreneurship training in which participants, over a seven-week period, learn about deliberate practice and use this approach to develop an aspect of an entrepreneurial competency of their choosing.
2. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2023). Using a comfort zone model and daily life situations to develop entrepreneurial competencies and an entrepreneurial mindset. Frontiers in Psychology, 14: 1136707.*      Participants take part in challenges to create value in daily life. The aims of the exercise are to develop their entrepreneurial competencies and to find out what competency aspects could benefit from further development.
3. Loi, M., Fayolle, A., Van Gelderen, M.W., Riot, E. et al. (2022). Entrepreneurship education at the crossroads: Challenging taken-for-granted assumptions and opening new perspectives. Journal of Management Inquiry, 31(2), 123-134.         So called curated article with five individual contributions towards new conceptualizations of entrepreneurship education. My contribution discusses Bhutan and asks and answers: What would entrepreneurship education look like in a cultural context where policies and culture promote simple living and contentment, are cautious about cultural change, and seek to constrain individual wealth accumulation?
4. Winkler, C., Liguori, E., Van Gelderen, M.W., Noyes, E., et al. (2022). Editorial: Publishing in Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 5(4), 511-522.       Letter by the editors of the EE&P journal that gives insight into what the journal is looking for in submissions, and how authors can optimize their chances of having their submissions published.
5. Van Gelderen, M.W., Wiklund, J.W., & McMullen, J.M. (2021). Entrepreneurship in the Future. A Delphi study of ETP and JBV editorial board members. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 45(5), 1239-1275.*          What will entrepreneurship look like in 2030? We conducted a Delphi panel study asking this question of editors and Editorial Review Board members of two of the leading entrepreneurship journals, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. From this input in the first round, using thematic coding analysis, we first identified 24 themes, and then generated 93 predictions, which we had assessed in terms of likelihood by the panel in a second round.
6. Engel, Y., Noordijk, S., Spoelder, A., & Van Gelderen, M.W. (2021). Self-compassion when coping with venture obstacles: loving kindness meditation and entrepreneurial fear of failure. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 45(2), 263–290.​          To better understand how entrepreneurs can effectively cope with fear-inducing obstacles, we conducted an experiment and showed that self-compassion, cultivated through Loving-Kindness Meditation, counteracts entrepreneurs’ fear of failure when facing a threatening venture obstacle. 
7. Rummel, S., Akkermans, J., Blokker, R., & Van Gelderen, M.W. (2021). Shocks and entrepreneurship: A study of career shocks among newly graduated entrepreneurs. Career Development International, 26(4), 562-581.          Empirical article which identifies several career shocks that can confront young, newly graduated entrepreneurs before and after starting a business, and reveals how these shocks influence graduates’ decisions to become and continue to be an entrepreneur.
8. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2020). Entrepreneurs’ Competencies. In: M. Gielnik, M. Frese, & M. Cardon (Eds.), Psychology of Entrepreneurship, pp 210-227. Milton Park: Routledge.       Overview of theory and research of entrepreneurial competencies.
9. Schraven, E.P., Van Burg, E., Van Gelderen, M.W., & Masurel, E (2020). Predictions of crowdfunding campaign success: The influence of first impressions on accuracy and positivity. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 13, article 331.          Are crowdfunders who study a campaign site only briefly, equally able to successfully predict whether a crowdfunding campaign will be successful, compared to those who study it for a longer time? And are they just as positive or as negative about the campaign? The experiment shows when given little (rather than unlimited) time, prediction accuracy is just as high, and that predictions become more negative.
10. Thompson, N.A., Van Gelderen, M.W., & Keppler, L. (2020). No need to worry? Anxiety and coping in the entrepreneurship process. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, article 398.          Based on 77 interviews, we identify the different issues that recently started entrepreneurs worry about, how it affects them (positive cognitive and behavioural effects are mentioned even more than negative ones), and outlines four different main ways of coping with these concerns.
11. Van Gelderen, M.W., Shirokova, G., Shchegolev, V., & Beliaeva, T. (2020). Striving for entrepreneurial autonomy: A comparison of Russia and the Netherlands. Management and Organization Review, 16(1), 107-138.*          Our cross-cultural comparison of Russia and the Netherlands reveals that the way autonomy is experienced and attained can be viewed as an expression of survival values in Russia and of self-expression values in the Netherlands.
12. Van Gelderen, M.W., Kibler, E., Kautonen, T., Munoz, P., & Wincent, J. (2019). Mindfulness and taking steps to start a new business. Journal of Small Business Management, 57(S2), 489-506.          Are people high in mindfulness quicker or slower to start new ventures? Our study shows that they are less likely to taking action, but once they do, they take as many actions as those lower in mindfulness.
13. Van Gelderen, M.W., Kautonen, T., Wincent, J., & Biniari, M. (2018). Implementation intentions in the entrepreneurial process: Concept, empirical findings, and research agenda. Small Business Economics. 51(4), 923-941.          Do implementation intentions help people to get started on their entrepreneurial intentions? Our longitudinal study shows that this is the case. 
14. Liguori, E., Winkler, C., Winkel, D., Marvel, M. R., Keels, J. K., van Gelderen, M.W., & Noyes, E. (2018). The entrepreneurship education imperative: Introducing EE&P. Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy, 1(1), 1-3.          The founding editors of Entrepreneurship Education & Pedogogy explain what their start-up journal is about.
15. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2016). Entrepreneurial autonomy and its dynamics. Applied Psychology, 65(3), 541-567.*        Having your own business does not automatically provide autonomy. This qualitative study reveals various challenges to autonomy that entrepreneurs face, and the actions that business owners take to attain and retain it. 
16. Van Gelderen, M.W., Kautonen, T., & Fink, M. (2015). From entrepreneurial intentions to actions: Self-control and action-related doubt, fear, and aversion. Journal of Business Venturing, 30​(5), 655-673.*          In 70% of the cases, entrepreneurial intentions were followed by no or hardly any action one year later. Self-control helps to translate intentions into actions, whereas doubt about what to do, does not. 
17. Kautonen, T., Van Gelderen, M.W., & Fink, M. (2015). Robustness of the Theory of Planned Behavior in predicting entrepreneurial intentions and actions. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 39(3), 655-674.          Entrepreneurial intentions are predicted by attitude (do you want to do it), perceived behavioural control (can you do it) and subjective norms (do you allow yourself to do it). Intentions, together with perceived behavioural control, predicts actual behaviour. Based on longitudinal survey data (2011 and 2012) from the adult population in Austria and Finland.
18. Bathurst, R., & Van Gelderen, M.W. (2014). Leading education professionals: Local, connected, and artful. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 36(4), 395-407.*          In this paper, we explore the work life of a scholar new to academia in her methods of leading informally.
19. Kautonen, T., Van Gelderen, M.W., & Tornikoski, E. (2013). Predicting entrepreneurial behaviour: A test of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Applied Economics, 45(6), 697-707.          Entrepreneurial intentions are predicted by attitude (do you want to do it), perceived behavioural control (can you do it) and subjective norms (do you allow yourself to do it). Intentions, together with perceived behavioural control, predicts actual behaviour. Based on longitudinal survey data (2006 and 2009) from the adult population in Finland.
20. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2012). Perseverance strategies for enterprising individuals. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 18(6), 630-648.*          Drawing on elements of control theory and appraisal theory, this paper presents a cyclical process model of perseverance. A variety of perseverance strategies within four broad categories is derived: strategies that affect adversity itself; strategies that change the way adversity is perceived; strategies that reframe the aim that adversity has made difficult to attain; and strategies that help to increase self-regulatory strength. James Dyson’s biography provides examples for the strategies.
21. Van Gelderen, M.W., Thurik, A.R., & Patel, P. (2011). Encountered problems and outcome status in nascent entrepreneurship. Journal of Small Business Management, 49(1), 71-91.          Research, based on a sample of 414 Dutch business starters followed over a three-year period, shows that, contrary to expectations, starters do not substantially differ from quitters in the number and type of problems encountered, and that those who encounter problems, do not quit more often than those who do not.  
22. Englert, P., Jackson, D.J.R. & van Gelderen, M.W. (2011). A critical examination of the internal consistency of competencies assessed across multiple methods. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Organisational Psychology, 4, 11–19.          This study evaluates the internal consistency of multimethod competency scores obtained from a developmental assessment centre. Results suggested that there was virtually no support for the idea that multimethod-derived competencies could be regarded as meaningful, internally consistent, underlying characteristics.
23. Jackson, D.J., Cooper-Thomas, H.D., van Gelderen, M.W., & Davis, J. (2010). Relationships among developmental competency measures and objective work outcomes. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 21(2), 169-186.        This study observes meaningful relationships between behavioural competency ratings and objective work outcomes. Data were collected from 118 entry-level employees in a retail organization in New Zealand. 
24. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2010). Autonomy as a guiding principle in entrepreneurship education. Education + Training, 52(8/9), 710-721.*          This paper present a vision of entrepreneurship education in which the student’s capacity for autonomous action is the ultimate aim, and discusses various issues that arise when implementing autonomy enhancing education. 
25. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2010). A heuristic-inducing method for generating initial ideas for opportunities: An application to the Australasian dating market. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 18(2), 139-166.*          This article reports on a series of workshops held with owners of dating agencies in Australia and New Zealand, in order to generate ideas for new opportunities. 
26. Van Gelderen, M.W., Brand, M., van Praag, M., Bodewes, W., Poutsma, E., & van Gils, A. (2008). Explaining entrepreneurial intentions by means of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Career Development International, 13(6), 538-559.          Article predicts the entrepreneurial intentions of business students at six different Dutch universities. 
27. Van Gelderen, M.W., Sayers, J., & Keen, C. (2008). Home-based internet businesses as drivers of variety. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 15(1), 162-177.          Qualitative empirical study which shows that the way home-based internet businesses (HBIBs) are operated and the reasons for which they are started, enable HBIBs to bring about variety. Arguments are provided that this variety then has a broader positive impact on the industry and the economy.
28. Hessels, J., Van Gelderen, M.W., & Thurik, A.R. (2008). Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers. Small Business Economics, 31(3), 323-339.          Empirical study using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data finds that countries with a higher incidence of increase-wealth-motivated entrepreneurs tend to have a higher prevalence of high-job-growth and export-oriented entrepreneurship and that a country’s level of social security relates negatively to the prevalence of innovative, high-job-growth, and export-oriented entrepreneurship.
29. Hessels, J., Van Gelderen, M.W., & Thurik, A.R. (2008). Drivers of entrepreneurial aspirations at the country level: The role of start-up motivations and social security. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 4(4), 401-417.          Empirical study using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data finds that  social security negatively affects a country’s supply of ambitious entrepreneurship, and that entrepreneurial aspirations in terms of job growth and export relate positively to the increase-wealth motive.
30. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2007). Country of origin as a source of business opportunities. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 4(4), 419-430.*          Based on qualitative empirical work, this paper points the opportunities for migrants and refugees based on their country of origin, and maps these symbolically on the human body.
31. Van Gelderen, M.W., & Jansen, P.G.W. (2006). Autonomy as a startup motive. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 13(1), 23-32.*          Given that so many business starters are motivated by autonomy, we ask why, and find that autonomy is not only intrinsically satisfying, but also instrumental to the fulfilment of yet three other motives: independence, self-expression, and control. 
32. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2006). Meaning in life as an opportunity for enterprise. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 14(4), 307-321.*          Suppose someone wants to start a business or organization that aims to alleviate meaninglessness. How can the person shape the proposition that he or she wants to offer? I take the market for alternative spiritual courses as a case example. Applying Baumeister’s theory of needs for meaning, I describe alternative spiritual courses in terms of a limited number of meaning models.
33. Van Gelderen, M.W., Thurik, A.R., & Bosma, N. (2005). Success and risk factors in the pre-startup phase. Small Business Economics, 24(4), 365-380.          Why does one person actually succeed in starting a business, while a second person gives up? In order to answer this question, a sample of 517 nascent entrepreneurs (people in the process of setting up a business) was followed over a three-year period.
34. Van Gelderen, M.W., Van der Sluis, E.C., & Jansen, P.G.W., (2005). Learning opportunities and learning behaviors of small business starters: Relations with goal achievement, skill development and satisfaction. Small Business Economics, 25(1), 97-108.           This empirical article identifies five situations in which business starters learn, and four different learning styles. These are then related to  goal achievement, skill development and satisfaction.
35. Forsyth, D., & Van Gelderen, M.W. (2005). Time management for novice nascent entrepreneurs. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 3(3), 245-252.          Enterprising people are often busy people. This article discusses a range of time management tactics, while emphasizing individual differences: working within one’s own preference for organisation.
36. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2004). A framework for conjecturing entrepreneurial opportunities. An application to individualization of demand in the undertaking industry. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 12(4), 351-371.*          This paper discusses a range of innovations and opportunities in the undertaking industry. 
37. Van Gelderen, M.W. & Verduyn, K. (2003). Entrepreneurship in the cinema. Feature films as case material in entrepreneurship education. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 1(4), 586-612.*          This paper showcases six feature films and one documentary in which the protagonists start or run a venture, and discusses events in the movies from the perspective of business theory and research. 
38. Van Gelderen, M.W., Frese, M., & Thurik, A.R. (2000). Strategies, uncertainty and performance of small business startups. Small Business Economics, 15, 165-181.          Longitudinal follow-up of the JSBM study below, showing that high performing business owners start out focussing on the most crucial issues (critical point strategy), with high performance leading to a more top-down (complete planning) approach.
39. Frese, M., Van Gelderen, M.W., & Ombach, M. (2000). How to plan as a small scale business owner: psychological process characteristics of action strategies and success. Journal of Small Business Management, 38(1), 1-18.          This article adds to the discussion about the suitability of business plans by seeing planning as a psychological phenomenon. A ‘critical point’ strategy, planning the main issues only, has the strongest association with business performance. 
40. Van Gelderen, M.W. (2000). Enterprising behaviour of ordinary people. European Journal of Work and Organisational Psychology, 9, 81-88.*          Article shows that enterprising behaviour takes place in a wide variety of contexts, not just starting a venture, and that people have different reasons for perceiving their actions as enterprising.