A Roy Thurik

Biographic Data

ID1938910
NAMEA Roy Thurik
GIVEN NAMESA Roy
FAMILY NAMEThurik
SIGNATURETHURIK A R
AFFILIATIONSErasmus University Rotterdam
ORCID0000-0002-0242-6908
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS45
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Mental health of entrepreneurs and daily recovery experiences

    Open AccessMathieu Le Moal, A Roy Thurik et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2026

    We analyze the relationships between daily recovery experiences after work (detachment, relaxation, mastery and control) and mental health (well-being and burnout) based on four surveys among French entrepreneurs (small business owners). First , comparing our results with those of previous studies on employees’ recovery experiences, we find that French entrepreneurs have fewer recovery experiences for all four dimensions. Second , we find that ex…

  • Seeking the roots of entrepreneurship

    Open AccessAnnelot Wismans, Pauline Jansen et al.ARTICLEApplied Psychology2024

    Entrepreneurial personality research has mostly used cross‐sectional data, giving rise to the question of whether the results can be used to predict entrepreneurial outcomes. Using a unique longitudinal dataset, we investigate whether and from what age personality in childhood and adolescence predicts entrepreneurial intention in young adulthood. We cover a time span of 17 years by assessing personality at four different developmental phases (6–9…

  • The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields

    Open AccessA Roy Thurik, David B Audretsch et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2024

    The remarkable ascent of entrepreneurship witnessed as a scientific field over the last 4 decades has been made possible by entrepreneurship’s ability to absorb theories, paradigms, and methods from other fields such as economics, psychology, sociology, geography, and even biology. The respectability of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline is now evidenced by many other fields starting to borrow from the entrepreneurship view. In the presen…

  • Remembering David J Storey, a pioneer of the entrepreneurship field”

    Open AccessSimon C Parker, Thomas Åstebro et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2024

  • What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles

    Open AccessMarie Madeleine Meurer, Maksim Belitski et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2024

    The field of entrepreneurship has seen remarkable growth, increasing the expectations of academic audiences. Articles need to balance novelty with rigorous methodology, theoretical contributions, social implications, and coherent argumentation to succeed in the publication process. However, navigating these varied and sometimes conflicting expectations to achieve optimal distinctiveness in academic narratives is challenging for authors. To explor…

  • Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the Fads locus

    Open AccessIain Mathieson, Felix R Day et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023Cited by: 3References: 70

  • Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals

    Open AccessAysu Okbay, Yeda Wu et al.ARTICLENature Genetics2022

    We conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment (EA) in a sample of ~3 million individuals and identify 3,952 approximately uncorrelated genome-wide-significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). A genome-wide polygenic predictor, or polygenic index (PGI), explains 12–16% of EA variance and contributes to risk prediction for ten diseases. Direct effects (i.e., controlling for parental PGIs) explain roughly half th…

  • Face mask use during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAnnelot Wismans, Peter van der Zwan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    We highlight that those countries that aim for widespread use of face masks should set strict measures, stress self-related risks of COVID-19, and use clear communication

  • Economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses

    Open AccessMaksim Belitski, Christina Guenther et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2022

    The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 15 contributions of the special issue on the “Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses,” the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesse…

  • Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 crisis

    Open AccessOlivier Torrès, Alexandre Benzari et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2022

    The risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs has increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, which calls for not only financial support but also other forms of support. The COVID-19 pandemic presents many threats for entrepreneurs since their business survival is often directly at stake. These threats are not just financial but also related to health, such as the threat of burnout. The findings of our study show that for French entrepren…

  • A decade of research on the genetics of entrepreneurship

    Open AccessCornelius A Rietveld, Eric A W Slob et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2021

    Studies analyzing the heritability of entrepreneurship indicate that explanations for why people engage in entrepreneurship that ignore genes are incomplete. However, despite promises that were solidly backed up with ex ante power calculations, attempts to identify specific genetic variants underlying the heritable variation in entrepreneurship have until now been unsuccessful. We describe the methodological issues hampering the identification of…

  • Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour

    Open AccessMelinda C Mills, Felix C Tropf et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Cited by: 10References: 81

  • Attention‐Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Entrepreneurial Orientation

    Open AccessAnnelot Wismans, A Roy Thurik et al.ARTICLEApplied Psychology2020

    There is a small body of literature linking attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its symptoms to entrepreneurial manifestations. Some studies take a subclinical perspective by studying the presence of symptoms, while other studies take a clinical perspective by studying the formal diagnosis of ADHD. The entrepreneurial manifestations examined range from entrepreneurial intention to the choice to become self‐employed and from entrep…

  • The role of affect in entrepreneurial orientation

    Open AccessIndy Bernoster, Jinia Mukerjee et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2020

    Although the literature on affect (i.e., the extent to which an individual subjectively experiences feelings and emotions) is burgeoning in the field of entrepreneurship, affect has not received sufficient attention with respect to an important antecedent to entrepreneurial success—entrepreneurial orientation. In this paper, we investigate the role of both positive and negative affect in entrepreneurial orientation (i.e., the strategic posture of…

  • Small business owners and health

    Open AccessOlivier Torrès, A Roy ThurikARTICLESmall Business Economics2019

    The present article identifies a societal and scholarly neglect for the field of small business ownership and health. We address health capital and its spillover effects and briefly outline a research program discriminating between pathogenic (negative for health) and salutogenic (positive for health) effects for a small business owner’s working life

  • Entrepreneurship and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Open AccessD Lerner, Daniel A Lerner et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2019

    A growing conversation has emerged linking ostensibly dark or pathological individual-level characteristics to entrepreneurship. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most central and emblematic. Recent studies have made great strides—articulating the theoretical relevance of ADHD-type behavior in entrepreneurship and suggesting a positive link consistent with narratives in the popular press. However, quantitative studies h…

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Open AccessLifelines Cohort Study, Aysu Okbay et al.ARTICLENature Genetics2016

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Open AccessAysu Okbay, Jonathan P Beauchamp et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions

    Open AccessIngrid Verheul, Joern Block et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2015

    Little is known about the relation between entrepreneurship and the extent of psychiatric symptoms. Validated psychiatric symptom scores are seldom used for non-clinical reasons. One prevalent symptom that deserves our interest is Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is a developmental disorder characterized by inattentiveness and hyperactivity that has been linked to occupational choice and performance. Building on the perso…

  • GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment

    Open AccessCornelius A Rietveld, Sarah E Medland et al.ARTICLEScience2013

    Genetic College Many genomic elements in humans are associated with behavior, including educational attainment. In a genome-wide association study including more than 100,000 samples, Rietveld et al. (p. 1467 , published online 30 May; see the Perspective by Flint and Munafò ) looked for genes related to educational attainment in Caucasians. Small genetic effects at three loci appeared to impact educational attainment.

  • Determinants of job satisfaction

    Open AccessJosé María Millán, Jolanda Hessels et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2013

    The job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994–2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction: job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of job security. Findings from our generalized ordered logit regressions indicate that self-employed individuals as compared to paid employees are more likely …

  • Entrepreneurship in Context

    A Roy Thurik, Roy Thurik et al.BOOKEntrepreneurship in Context2012

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  • Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle

    Philipp D Koellinger, A Roy ThurikARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2012

    We find new empirical regularities in the business cycle in a cross-country panel of 22 OECD countries for the period 1972 to 2007; entrepreneurship Granger-causes the cycles of the world economy. Furthermore, the entrepreneurial cycle is positively affected by the national unemployment cycle. We discuss possible causes and implications of these findings

  • The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development

    Open AccessPeter van der Zwan, Ingrid Verheul et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2012

    Gender differences at five levels of entrepreneurial engagement are explained using country effects while controlling for individual-level variables. We distinguish between individuals who have never considered starting up a business, those who are thinking about it, and nascent, young, and established entrepreneurs. We use a large international dataset that includes respondents from 32 European countries, three Asian countries, and the United St…

  • Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment

    Open AccessIngrid Verheul, A Roy Thurik et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Psychology2012Cited by: 13References: 83