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93
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Citations
49837
World Ranking
150
National Ranking
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  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
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  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award

Overview

Roy Thurik is affiliated with Montpellier Business School in France. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with specific attention to the subfields of Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics and Econometrics, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, Family Business Performance and Succession, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Employment and Welfare Studies, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Recent papers by Roy Thurik include:

  • Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses (2021) published in Small Business Economics
  • Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis (2021) published in Small Business Economics
  • Psychological characteristics and the mediating role of the 5C Model in explaining students' COVID-19 vaccination intention (2021) published in PLoS ONE
  • Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses (2021) published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Goal heterogeneity at start-up: are greener start-ups more innovative? (2020) published in Research Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roy Thurik include:

  • Olivier Torrès
  • Annelot Wismans
  • Ingmar H. A. Franken
  • Marcus Dejardin
  • Frank Janssen

Roy Thurik's work has been extensively published in several academic venues, notably:

  • Small Business Economics (6 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
  • Revue internationale P M E Économie et gestion de la petite et moyenne entreprise (3 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (2 publications)
  • Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Linking Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

    Sander Wennekers;Roy Thurik

  • The Effect of Entrepreneurial Activity on National Economic Growth

    André van Stel;Martin Carree;A. Roy Thurik

  • Nascent Entrepreneurship and the Level of Economic Development

    Sander Wennekers;André J. van Stel;A. Roy Thurik;Paul Reynolds

  • What's New about the New Economy? Sources of Growth in the Managed and Entrepreneurial Economies

    David B. Audretsch;A. Roy Thurik

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

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

  • The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth

    Martin A. Carree;A. Roy Thurik

  • Economic Development and Business Ownership: An Analysis Using Data of 23 OECD Countries in the Period 1976–1996

    Martin Carree;André van Stel;Roy Thurik;Sander Wennekers

  • The Effect of Business Regulations on Nascent and Young Business Entrepreneurship

    André van Stel;David J. Storey;A. Roy Thurik;A. Roy Thurik

  • Capitalism and democracy in the 21st Century: from the managed to the entrepreneurial economy*

    David B. Audretsch;A. Roy Thurik

  • An eclectic theory of entrepreneurship: policies, institutions and culture

    Roy Thurik;Sander Wennekers;Ingrid Verheul;David Audretsch

  • Start-Up Capital: "Does Gender Matter?"

    Ingrid Verheul;Roy Thurik

  • Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers

    Jolanda Hessels;Marco van Gelderen;Roy Thurik

  • Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

    A. Roy Thurik;A. Roy Thurik;Martin A. Carree;André J. van Stel;David B. Audretsch;David B. Audretsch

  • Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

    Ingrid Verheul;André J. van Stel;A. Roy Thurik

  • Entrepreneurship, small business and economic growth

    Roy Thurik;Sander Wennekers

  • Success and risk factors in the pre-startup phase

    Marco van Gelderen;Roy Thurik;Niels Bosma

  • Entrepreneurship and its Determinants in a Cross-Country Setting

    Andreas Freytag;Roy Thurik

  • A model of the entrepreneurial economy

    David B. Audretsch;A. Roy Thurik

  • Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle

    Philipp D. Koellinger;A. Roy Thurik

  • Linking entrepreneurship to growth

    David B. Audretsch;Roy Thurik

  • Nascent Entrepreneurship and the Level of Economic Development

    Roy Thurik;Paul D. Reynolds;S. Wennekers;Andre J. van Stel

Frequent Co-Authors

André van Stel
André van Stel Kozminski University
Ingrid Verheul
Ingrid Verheul Erasmus University Rotterdam
David B. Audretsch
David B. Audretsch Indiana University
Philipp D. Koellinger
Philipp D. Koellinger Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martin Carree
Martin Carree Maastricht University
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Daniel J. Benjamin
Daniel J. Benjamin University of California, Los Angeles
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
David Cesarini
David Cesarini New York University
Magnus Johannesson
Magnus Johannesson Stockholm School of Economics

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