Citations:push factor

English citations of push factor

1. A factor that encourages one to leave one's current home, region, country, organization, or religion.
   • 1996, Ken Robbie, Mike Wright, Management Buy-ins: Entrepreneurship, Active Investors, and Corporate Restructuring (Studies in Finance), Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 69:

     Factor 3 was dominated by the fear of redundancy and of a new owner with negative factor score coefficients for controlling one's own business, being free of group restraints and initiative. It appeared to represent a forcing into buy-outs, and could be seen to be a defensive ‘push’ factor.

   • 2005, Atul Mishra, “Entrepreneurial Motivations in Start-up and Survival of Micro- and Small Enterprises in the Rural Non-farm Economy”, in Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, volume 18, number 3, Regina, Saskatchewan: Faculty of Administration, University of Regina, →ISSN, page 314:

     Socially discriminated entrepreneurs did not switch activity because of: / Push factor[:] Unemployment / Pull factor[:] Low Uncertainty of income […] / Traditional entrepreneurs switched activity because of: / Pull factor[:] could handle alone / Push factor[:] lack of skilled labour