Jolanda Hessels
Biography
Jolanda Hessels is associate professor at Erasmus School of Economics. Jolanda’s research focuses on entrepreneurship, looking into entry, exit and performance of entrepreneurs. She is interested in how characteristics of countries (e.g., institutions), firms (e.g., a firm’s age structure) and individuals (e.g., human capital, career progression as employee) associate with entrepreneurship. Her research has received over 11,000 citations based on Google scholar and her H-index is 33.
In current projects Jolanda looks into how previous careers and the hiring strategies of entrepreneurs affect the performance of their startups and employees. She also investigates the role of large firm's strategies for explaining declining entrepreneurship rates.
List of publications
van der Zwan, P., Hessels, J. and Burger, M. (2019). Happy Free Willies? Investigating the relationship between freelancing and subjective well-being Small Business Economics, :.
Darnihamedani, P., Hessels, J., Block, J. and Simonyan, A. (2018). Taxes, start-up costs, and innovative entrepreneurship Small Business Economics, 51(2):355--369.
Hessels, J., Arampatzi, E., van der Zwan, P. and Burger, M. (2018). Life satisfaction and self-employment in different types of occupations Applied Economics Letters, 25(11):734--740.
Hessels, J. and Naude, W. (2018). The intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and development economics: A review towards a new view Journal of Economic Surveys, in press:.
van der Zwan, P., Hessels, J. and Rietveld, N. (2018). Self-employment and satisfaction with life, work, and leisure Journal of Economic Psychology, 64:73--88.
Hessels, J., Rietveld, N. and van der Zwan, P. (2014). Unraveling two myths about entrepreneurs Economics Letters, 122(3):435--438.
Millan, J., Hessels, J., Thurik, R. and Aguado, R. (2013). Determinants of job satisfaction: A European comparison of self-employed and paid employees Small Business Economics, 40(3):651--670.
Bosma, N., Hessels, J., Schutjens, V., van Praag, C. and Verheul, I. (2012). Entrepreneurship and role models Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(2):410--424.
Hessels, J. and van Stel, A. (2011). Entrepreneurship, export orientation and economic growth Small Business Economics, 37(2):255--268.
Hessels, J., Grilo, I., Thurik, R. and van der Zwan, P. (2011). Entrepreneurial exit and entrepreneurial engagement Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 21(3):447--471.
Hessels, J. and Terjesen, S. (2010). Resource dependency and institutional theory perspectives on direct and indirect export choices Small Business Economics, 34(2):203--220.
Acs, Z., Desai, S. and Hessels, J. (2008). Entrepreneurship, economic development and institutions Small Business Economics, 31(3):219--234.
de Clercq, D., Hessels, J. and van Stel, A. (2008). Knowledge spillovers and new ventures' export orientation Small Business Economics, 31(3):283--303.
Hessels, J., van Gelderen, M. and Thurik, R. (2008). Entrepreneurial motivations, aspirations and their drivers Small Business Economics, 31(3):323--339.