Published work and working papers

- Policy brief: Entrepreneurship in Focus: Time or Money? Mothers and Start-up decisions. FGF-Forschungsnetzwerk Entrepreneurship, Innovation und Mittelstand e.V. and IfM Bonn. Issue 4/2025. ENG DE
- Theunissen, P., Kensbock, J. M., Schüler, J., Baum, M., & Gerards, R. (2025). What Makes Mothers Decide (Not) to Become Entrepreneurs? Unpacking the Role of Time and Money in Parental Leave Policies. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13215
- Theunissen, P., & Millone, M. (2024). Gender effects in crowdfunded business loan campaigns. Plos one, 19(7), e0305601. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.030560
- Self-employment and Motherhood: Labor Market Outcomes of Self-employment in Early Childhood Years. Joint work with Annemarie Kuenn and Kate Rybczynski. Best paper award 2022 Academy of Management conference. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2022, No. 1, p. 16030). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.229
- It’s a lady’s business: Investigating the effects of the menstrual cycle on entrepreneurial behavior. Joint work with Jolien Huybrechts.
- Time is money? The role of cadence and serial entrepreneurship in venture capital funding outcomes of startups. Joint work with Noah Borges and Sjoke Merk.
Doctoral thesis
Challenges and opportunities of women in entrepreneurship: Essays on motherhood and access to finance (2022). [Doctoral Thesis, Maastricht University]. Ridderprint. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20220405pt
PhD supervision
- Dominique Lopez
- Florens C. Pfann
- Adressing the lemons’ problem: Quality uncertainty in the battery engine vehicle era.