...Per Broomé; Henrik Ohlsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of ability, desire and opportunity on the individual’s intention to be self-employed. Design/methodology/approach The authors created a database from Swedish national registers consisting of all...

... ability from actual ability and using theoretical underpinnings from the human capital theory and self-efficacy theory, the proposed hypotheses are tested on a data set comprising respondents from the adult population. Design/methodology/approach – Using 20,046 observations from the adult population...