Empirical studies have often established a negative relationship between the size of a firm where an individual is employed and the probability of that individual subsequently founding a business. This literature suggests that size captures work organization—particularly bureaucracy—and that bureaucracy affects the transition to entrepreneurship. However, many studies find that firm size is a poor proxy of work organization and, therefore, calls for empirical research exploring the link between specific measures of work organization and the transition to entrepreneurship. We create a measure of work organization from survey data—ranging from bureaucracy to adhocracy. We then combine this with longitudinal matched employer–employee register data and investigate different types of entrepreneurial transitions for individuals triggered by a mass worker displacement event. We find that work organization significantly affects several measures of transition, with possible implications for the policies and institutional settings that condition firms’ organization of work.

实证研究通常建立在个人就业的公司规模与该个人随后创办企业的可能性之间呈负相关。这些文献表明，规模捕捉了工作组织——尤其是官僚主义——而官僚主义会影响向创业的过渡。然而，许多研究发现，公司规模并不能很好地代表工作组织，因此需要进行实证研究，探索工作组织的具体措施与向创业过渡之间的联系。我们根据调查数据（从官僚主义到临时性）创建工作组织度量。然后，我们将其与纵向匹配的雇主-雇员登记数据相结合，并调查由大规模工人流离失所事件引发的个人不同类型的创业转变。我们发现，工作组织显著影响转型的几个指标，可能对制约公司工作组织的政策和制度环境产生影响。