In recent years the perspective on entrepreneurship research moved from the question “what is an entrepreneur” to the question “what influences people to develop entrepreneurial behaviour” respectively “what are the antecedents of entrepreneurial behaviour”. Christian Willi Scheiner examines selected fundamental determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour. For the analysis it was essential to study influencing and determining factors before the decision is made to found a business. Therefore, not entrepreneurs but students were chosen as study samples.

Dr. Christian Willi Scheiner wrote his dissertation at the Chair of Industrial Management of Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.