This literature study reviews 300 academic publications on digital matching platforms, SME business transfers and the underlying drivers for success in matching and business transfers. How to build digital trust, how to select partners digitally and how to predict survival of digital matching platforms …

This paper explores 14 traditional coping strategies by Carver et al. in an entreperneurial setting of 880 business owners. Findings indicate that business owners in the process of selling their business may cope differently with stress than business owners that are not. They specifically seem to cope …

Pedaling Forward is a collaborated project created by Point Asia co. ltd and Xinosys co. ltd. Its objective is to connect (Taiwanese) bicycle manufacturers directly to bicycle retailers worldwide through the Patisco.com platform. End of 2012 Pedaling Forward had taken an interest in the Dutch bicycle …

This report explains the recommended course of action for Henkel Beauty Care Benelux towards successfully launching a new male skincare line in The Netherlands within six months. To achieve this, the aim of the research was to identify the general male consumer tendencies regarding cosmetic products …

This paper investigates whether students change their entrepreneurial entry preference if they are presented with different options. We propose that students’ entry preferences are mediated by concepts proposed by threshold theory: choice options, opportunity costs and psychic income. This study is exploratory …

This article responds to the call of scholars for more research on psychological phenomena in entrepreneurship and especially business transfers. The complexity represented in business transfers has attracted a substantial interest of a wide variety of disciplines in the last 30 years. Despite this attention …

How a company can reduce customer defection by changing its strategy and increasing customer intimacy. This means having a better company/customer relationship and building customer loyalty.

Letting go of the firm or “my baby” as some entrepreneurs describe their creation, leads to a certain amount of stress (Rahim 1996, Kets de Vries 1999). Dealing with stress in singular events as the transfer of a business, is hardly been subject of research (Uy et al. 2012). Improving coping strategies …