Biography
Jolanda Hessels is associate professor at Erasmus School of Economics and serves as head of the Strategy Economics group within the Department of Applied Economics. Jolanda is a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and a member of Erasmus Research Institute in Management (ERIM). She also is the academic director of the Master Specialization in Strategy Economics at ESE.
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, FDI), firms (e.g., a firm’s age structure) and individuals (e.g., personality, relationship status, human capital, career progression as employee) associate with entrepreneurship.
In current projects Jolanda investigates, among others, the drivers of 1) employee transitions into entrepreneurship; 2) female serial entrepreneurship; and 3) green innovation.
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Work
- Steven A. Brieger, Dirk De Clercq, Jolanda Hessels & Christian Pfeifer (2020) - Greater fit and a greater gap: How environmental support for entrepreneurship increases the life satisfaction gap between entrepreneurs and employees - International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 26 (4), 561-594 - doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-03-2019-0185 - [link]
- L Van Loon, Jolanda Hessels, Niels Rietveld & P Van der Zwan (2020) - Separation from the life partner and exit from self-employment - Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1118 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01118 - [link]
- Jolanda Hessels, Niels Rietveld, Roy Thurik & P Van der Zwan (2020) - The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees in Australia - Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 13 - doi: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2019.e00148 - [link]
- Jolanda Hessels, Niels Rietveld & P Van der Zwan (2020) - The relation between health and earnings in self-employment - Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 801 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00801 - [link]
- Jolanda Hessels & Peter Van Der Zwan (2019) - Old age self-employment and work-related stress - doi: 10.4337/9781788116213.00019 - [link]
- Peter van der Zwan, Jolanda Hessels & Martijn Burger (2019) - Happy Free Willies? Investigating the relationship between freelancing and subjective well-being - Small Business Economics - doi: 10.1007/s11187-019-00246-6 - [link]
- Jolanda Hessels & P Van der Zwan (2019) - Old age entrepreneurship and work-related stress - [link]
- P Van der Zwan & Jolanda Hessels (2019) - Solo self-employment and wellbeing: an overview of the literature and an empirical illustration - International Review of Entrepreneurship, 17 (2), 169-188 - [link]
- Jolanda Hessels, Niels Rietveld, Roy Thurik & Peter van der Zwan (2018) - Depression and entrepreneurial exit - Academy of Management Perspectives, 32 (3), 323-339 - doi: 10.5465/amp.2016.0183 - [link]
- Pourya Darnihamedani, Jolanda Hessels, Joern Block & A Simonyan (2018) - Taxes, start-up costs, and innovative entrepreneurship - Small Business Economics, 51 (2), 355-369 - doi: 10.1007/s11187-018-0005-9 - [link]
