Peter van der Zwan
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. P.W. van der Zwan
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8560
- p.w.van.der.zwan@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2654-4367
Dr. Peter van der Zwan is an associate professor at the Department of Business Studies at Leiden Law School. He obtained his MSc in Econometrics (2007) and PhD in Economics (2011) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He joined the department in 2017.
Dr. Peter van der Zwan is an associate professor at the Department of Business Studies at Leiden Law School. He obtained his MSc in Econometrics (2007) and PhD in Economics (2011) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He joined the department in 2017.
Currently, Peter is bachelor thesis coordinator and education coordinator of the department. He is responsible for the course Business Analytics. Peter is also member of the Leiden Teachers’ Academy. He is deputy head of the Department of Business Studies.
His research has been published in several international peer-reviewed journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics, and Journal of Economic Psychology. His research focuses on a variety of entrepreneurial topics, such as entrepreneurial finance, the role of entrepreneurs within the economy, and on the wellbeing outcomes of entrepreneurial behaviour.
Associate Professor
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- Instituut Fiscale en Economische vakken
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- Hessels J., Rietveld C.A., Thurik A.R. & Zwan P.W. van der (2020), The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees in Australia, Journal of Business Venturing Insights 13: e00148.
- Hessels J., Rietveld C.A. & Zwan P.W. van der (2020), The Relation Between Health and Earnings in Self-Employment, Frontiers in Psychology 11(801): 1-11.
- Zhou H. & Zwan P.W. van der (2019), Is there a risk of growing fast? The relationship between organic employment growth and firm exit, Industrial and Corporate Change 28(5): 1297-1320.
- Hessels S.J.A. & Zwan P.W. van der (2019), Old age self-employment and work-related stress. In: Backman M., Karlsson C., Kekezi O. (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Aging. Research Handbooks in Business and Management series Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 283-298.
- Zwan P.W. van der & Hessels J. (2019), Solo Self-employment and Wellbeing: An Overview of the Literature and an Empirical Illustration, International Review of Entrepreneurship 17(2): 169-188.
- Hoogendoorn B., Zwan P.W. van der & Thurik R. (2019), Sustainable entrepreneurship: The role of perceived barriers and risk, Journal of Business Ethics 157(4): 1133-1154.
- Hessels J., Rietveld C.A., Thurik A.R. & Zwan P.W. van der (2018), Depression and Entrepreneurial Exit, Academy of Management Perspectives 32(3): 323-339.
- Zwan P. van der, Hessels J. & Rietveld C.A. (2018), Self-employment and satisfaction with life, work, and leisure, Journal of Economic Psychology 64: 73-88.
- Andrieu G., Staglianò R. & Zwan P.W. van der (2018), Bank debt and trade credit for SMEs in Europe: firm-, industry-, and country-level determinants, Small Business Economics 51(1): 245-264.
- Hessels J., Arampatzi E., Zwan P. van der & Burger M. (2018), Life satisfaction and self-employment in different types of occupations, Applied Economics Letters 25(11): 734-740.
- Hessels J., Rietveld C.A. & Zwan P. van der (2017), Self-employment and work-related stress: The mediating role of job control and job demand, Journal of Business Venturing 32(2): 178-196.
- Zwan P. van der & Thurik A.R. (2017), Entrepreneurship as a process: Empirical evidence for entrepreneurial engagement levels. In: Ahmetoglu G., Chamorro-Premuzic T., Klinger B., Karcisky T. (Eds.) The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 25-35.
- Burger M.J., Hendriks M., Pleeging E. & Zwan P.W. van der (2016), The silver linings of lottery play: motivation and subjective well-being of British lottery participants, Applied Economics Letters 23(18): 1312-1316.
- Rietveld C.A., Bailey H., Hessels J. & Zwan P. van der (2016), Health and entrepreneurship in four Caribbean Basin countries, Economics & Human Biology 21: 84-89.
- Zwan P. van der (2016), Bank Loan Application Success of Innovative and Non-Innovative SMEs, International Review of Entrepreneurship 14(4): 483-502.
- Zwan P. van der, Thurik R., Verheul I. & Hessels J. (2016), Factors influencing the entrepreneurial engagement of opportunity and necessity entrepreneurs, Eurasian Business Review 6(3): 273-295.
- Rietveld C.A., Hessels J. & Zwan P. van der (2015), The stature of the self-employed and its relation with earnings and satisfaction, Economics & Human Biology 17: 59-74.
- Hoogendoorn B., Guerra D. & Zwan P. van der (2015), What drives environmental practices of SMEs?, Small Business Economics 44(4): 759-781.
- Hessels J., Rietveld C.A. & Zwan P. van der (2014), Unraveling two myths about entrepreneurs, Economics Letters 122(3): 435-438.
- Zwan P. van der & Hessels J. (2014), Ondernemerschap en geluk. In: Het rendement van geluk: Inzichten uit wetenschap en praktijk. Meppel: Ten Brink B.V.. 73-86.
- Canton E., Grilo I., Monteagudo J. & Zwan P. van der (2013), Perceived credit constraints in the European Union, Small Business Economics 41(3): 701-715.
- Block J., Thurik R., Zwan P. van der & Walter S. (2013), Business Takeover or New Venture? Individual and Environmental Determinants From a Cross-Country Study, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 37(5): 1099-1121.
- Zwan P. van der, Verheul I., Thurik R. & Grilo I. (2013), Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing the Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and the United States, Regional Studies 47(5): 803-825.
- Zwan P. van der, Hessels J., Hoogendoorn B. & Vries N. de Vries (2013), Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012, the Netherlands no. Panteia/EIM Scales Research Report H201314.
- Zwan P. van der, Verheul I. & Thurik A.R. (2012), The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development, Small Business Economics 39(3): 627-643.
- Verheul I., Thurik R., Grilo I. & Zwan P. van der (2012), Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment: Gender and the entrepreneurial personality, Journal of Economic Psychology 33(2): 325-341.
- Zwan P. van der, Hessels J., Stel A. van & Wennekers S. (2012), Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2011, the Netherlands. Scales Research Report no. A201211. Zoetermeer: Panteia/EIM.
- Hessels J., Grilo I., Thurik R. & Zwan P. van der (2011), Entrepreneurial exit and entrepreneurial engagement, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 21(3): 447-471.
- Zwan P. van der, Verheul I. & Thurik R. (2011), The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Transition and Non-Transition Economies, Entrepreneurship Research Journal 1(2): Article 4.
- Zwan P. van der, Thurik R. & Grilo I. (2010), The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants, Applied Economics 42(17): 2183-2191.
- Stam E., Thurik R. & Zwan P. van der (2010), Entrepreneurial exit in real and imagined markets, Industrial and Corporate Change 19(4): 1109-1139.
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