In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor -- individual entrepreneurs -- plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …

Using state-level data from India over the period 1983 to 2005, this paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and …. This suggests that financial deepening contributed to poverty alleviation in rural areas by fostering entrepreneurship and …

for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this …, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such as Hinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … tradition of the caste system influence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behaviour. …

restructuring by firms and their subsequent performance as measured by growth in sales and in sales per employee over a three … the new market environment. We go on to analyse the impact on performance of ownership, soft budget constraints, the … ownership per se has no significant relationship to performance (though state-owned firms have engaged in significantly less …

to measure the cost of a wide range of constraints on firm performance, and we show that after more than a decade of …