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Niels Bosma is a researcher affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their primary field of study is Business, Management, and Accounting, with a particular focus on subfields such as Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Business and International Management.

The main research topics explored by Bosma encompass Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Family Business Performance and Succession, Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research, Management and Organizational Studies, and economic history and contemporary issues related to Italy.

Recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Figuring it out: configurations of high-performing entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe (2023), published in Regional Studies
  • A multidimensional perspective on child labor in the value chain: The case of the cocoa value chain in West Africa (2021), published in World Development
  • Special topic report social entrepreneurship (2021), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • The role and effectiveness of non-formal training programmes for entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic literature review (2024), published in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • Cultural diversity and innovative entrepreneurship (2024), published in Small Business Economics

Frequent publication venues for Bosma's work include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Small Business Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Regional Studies
  • World Development

Collaborators frequently working with Bosma are:

  • Erik Stam
  • Xing Li
  • Wanxiang Cai
  • Christina Theodoraki
  • Didier Chabaud

Best Publications

  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Data Collection Design and Implementation 1998–2003

    Paul Reynolds;Niels Bosma;Erkko Autio;Steve Hunt

  • The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of startups

    Niels Bosma;Mirjam van Praag;Roy Thurik;Gerrit de Wit

  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2009 Executive Report.

    N.S. Bosma;J. Levie

  • Entrepreneurship and role models

    Niels Bosma;Jolanda Hessels;Veronique Schutjens;Mirjam Van Praag

  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor : 2009 Global Report

    Niels Bosma;Jonathan Levie

  • Success and risk factors in the pre-startup phase

    Marco van Gelderen;Roy Thurik;Niels Bosma

  • Designing a global standardized methodology for measuring social entrepreneurship activity: the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor social entrepreneurship study

    Jan Lepoutre;Rachida Justo;Siri Terjesen;Niels Bosma

  • Institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in Europe

    Niels Bosma;Mark Sanders;Erik Stam

  • The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (Gem) and Its Impact on Entrepreneurship Research

    Niels Bosma

  • Understanding regional variation in entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial attitude in Europe

    Niels Bosma;Veronique Schutjens

  • Global entrepreneurship monitor 2013 global report

    N.S. Bosma;José Ernesto Amorós

  • Advancing Public Policy for High‐Growth, Female, and Social Entrepreneurs

    Siri Terjesen;Niels Bosma;Erik Stam

  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2007

    N. Bosma;K. Jones;E. Autio;J.D. Levie

  • Entrepreneurship as an Urban Event? Empirical Evidence from European Cities

    Niels Bosma;Rolf Sternberg

  • The geography of new firm formation: Evidence from independent start-ups and new subsidiaries in the Netherlands

    Niels Bosma;André van Stel;Kashifa Suddle

  • Using Average Propagation Lengths to Identify Production Chains in the Andalusian Economy

    Erik Dietzenbacher;Isidoro Romero Luna;Niels S. Bosma

  • Creative destruction and regional productivity growth: evidence from the Dutch manufacturing and services industries

    Niels Bosma;Erik Stam;Veronique Schutjens

  • Searching for the existence of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a regional cross-section growth regression approach

    K. Bruns;N. Bosma;Mark Sanders;M. Schramm

  • Intrapreneurship - An international study

    Niels Bosma;Sander Wennekers;Erik Stam

  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2010 Executive Report

    D. Kelley;N.S. Bosma;J.E. Amorós

  • Determinants of successful entrepreneurship

    Mirjam van Praag

  • Success and Risk Factors in the Pre-Startup Phase

    Roy Thurik;Marco van Gelderen;Niels Bosma

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Sternberg
Rolf Sternberg University of Hannover
Frank van Oort
Frank van Oort Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rob Raven
Rob Raven Monash University

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