The Link between the Entry Decision and Post-Entry Performance: Evidence from Italy.
This paper aims to link together entry decision and post-entry performance. It relies on a database of 100 new Italian firms to link post-entry performance to the original factors that shaped the decision to start a new firm. The evidence suggests that those motivations underlying the decision to start a new firm do not have a neutral influence on post-entry performance. Rather, an innovative motivation and certain traditional economic factors tend to be related to a superior post-entry performance. The same seems also to be true for background push-factors such as the previous employment position. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.
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1998
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Authors: | Vivarelli, Marco ; Audretsch, David |
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Industrial and Corporate Change. - Oxford University Press. - Vol. 7.1998, 3, p. 485-500
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Oxford University Press |
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