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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …

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Endogenous growth through knowledge spillovers in entrepreneurship: An empirical test

Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl; Hellerstedt, Karin - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

analysis: First, do industries with a greater need for new technology-based entrepreneurship grow disproportionately faster …

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Untangling the relationships among growth, profitability and survival in new firms

Delmar, Frédéric; McKelvie, Alexander; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

The performance of new firms is important for economic development but research has produced limited knowledge about the key relationships among growth, profitability, and survival for new firms. Based on evolutionary theory, we develop a model about how new firms resolve uncertainty about their...

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Small business exit: Review of past research, theoretical considerations and suggestions for future research

DeTienne, Dawn; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

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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Succession in Private Firms as an Entrepreneurial Process – A Review and Suggestions of New Research avenues

Wennberg, Karl; Nordqvist, Mattias; Bau, Massimo; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

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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Implications of Intra-Family and External Ownership Transfer Of Family Firms: Short Term and Long Term Performance

Wennberg, Karl; Wiklund, Johan; Hellerstedt, Karin; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

entrepreneurship research. …

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Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance

Toft-Kehler, Rasmus; Wennberg, Karl; Kim, Phillip - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

entrepreneurial experience—people can learn entrepreneurship and pursue it with greater success as long as they have multiple …

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The Relationship Between Innovation and New Firm Growth

McKelvie, Alexander; Brattström, Anna; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

This paper seeks to untangle the relationship between new firm’s innovative activities and subsequent growth. We theorize about the inter-related roles of managerial growth willingness, inputs and outputs of innovative activities, and their subsequent link to sales growth. Investigating a...

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Bank Financing of Start-ups – Findings from a survey

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Elmoznino Laufer, Michel - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

In the paper we look at the bank lending routines of Swedish banks and their consequences for <p> external financing of start-ups. Results from a questionnaire sent out to start-ups listed in the files of the Swedish interest organization “NyföretagarCentrum” were used. We looked at firms...</p>

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University Knowledge Spillovers & Regional Start-up Rates: Supply and Demand Side Factors

Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl; Frederiksen, Lars - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

. Integrating insights from economic geography and population ecology into the literature on entrepreneurship, we develop a …

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