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outcomes operating at multiple levels of analysis. We do so because entrepreneurship research is often considered a … phenomenondriven academic field (Shane, 2003; Sorenson and Stuart, 2008) and entrepreneurship is in itself a multidimensional concept …
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to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. We provide a comprehensive literature review of succession … literatures on entrepreneurship, family firms, and governance in private firms. The paper explores theoretical, conceptual, and … methodological ways of integrating these findings into the research on entrepreneurship and family business. …
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This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the … relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self …-employment in a panel data setting covering 23 OECD countries and the time-period 1972-2002. The measure of economic freedom …
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economic growth. Given the importance of entrepreneurship and small business enterprises it is not surprising that policy … discussed, is how to design tax policies that stimulate start-ups and entrepreneurship. Existing knowledge about taxes’ effect … on US data and have until recently used aggregated tax measures (e.g., average national tax rates) or hypothetical …
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High-growth firms (HGFs) are critical for net job creation and economic growth. We analyze HGFs using the theory of competence blocs, linking firm growth to property rights and the interaction of complementary expertise. Specifically, we discuss how the institutional framework affects the...
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entrepreneurship research. …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the industry context matters for whether Gibrat's law is rejected or not using a dataset that consists of all limited firms in 5-digit NACE-industries in Sweden during 1998-2004. The results reject Gibrat's law on an aggregate level, since small...
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Prior studies have defined high-growth firms (HGFs) in terms of sales or employment, and analyzed their contribution to employment growth. We define HGFs by employment and sales and add definitions of value added and productivity. We examine the contribution of HGFs to employment growth,...
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data covering all firms in Sweden during 1993-2006. Firm growth is measured in terms of absolute employment growth …
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reported. The main contribution is to extend the analysis to include all firms in the economy using census data. Our study is …
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