IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/epolin/v52y2025i2d10.1007_s40812-024-00331-2.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Team-level drivers of human capital accumulation by entrepreneurs

Author

Listed:
  • Evila Piva

    (Politecnico di Milano)

  • Vincenzo Butticè

    (Politecnico di Milano)

Abstract

This paper focuses on human capital accumulation by entrepreneurs who are part of the entrepreneurial teams running new ventures. We investigate the influence of attributes of an entrepreneur’s teammates on the entrepreneur’s engagement in training to acquire new knowledge and skills. We develop a set of hypotheses on the impact of three characteristics of the entrepreneur’s teammates: teammates’ competencies and number, and the common ground between the entrepreneur and the teammates. We test these hypotheses using data on the participation of 244 entrepreneurs in a training program. Findings document that an entrepreneur is more likely to engage in training to accumulate human capital in a specific domain, the poorer the competencies of the teammates in the domain, the lower the number of teammates and in the presence of common ground with the teammates. These results contribute to the literature on human capital accumulation and entrepreneurship and provide implications for educators.

Suggested Citation

  • Evila Piva & Vincenzo Butticè, 2025. "Team-level drivers of human capital accumulation by entrepreneurs," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 52(2), pages 501-524, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:epolin:v:52:y:2025:i:2:d:10.1007_s40812-024-00331-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s40812-024-00331-2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s40812-024-00331-2
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s40812-024-00331-2?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:epolin:v:52:y:2025:i:2:d:10.1007_s40812-024-00331-2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.