Similar Search Results

Surviving Against the Tide: Are New Businesses in Innovative Industries Less Affected by General Economic Trends?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884451

The Use and Effect of Social Capital in New Venture Creation - Solo Entrepreneurs vs. New Venture Teams

Cantner, Uwe; Stützer, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that solo entrepreneurs and new venture teams do not differ in their … find that weak ties assist solo entrepreneurs and have positive significant effects on new venture performance. For team … positively moderates the effect of social capital on performance. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489510

Disentangling the Effects of New Venture Team Functional Heterogeneity on New Venture Performance

Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Stuetzer, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

or hinders new venture performance. Reconciling this inconsistency, this paper suggests a new conceptual approach to … negatively relates to both start-ups' entrepreneurial and innovative performance. In contrast, we find knowledge scope to … positively affect entrepreneurial performance, while it shows an inverse U-shaped relationship to innovative start-up performance. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008475665

Employment Growth of New Firms

Stam, Erik; Gibcus, Petra; Telussa, Jennifer; Garnsey, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyses the association between dynamic capabilities and new firm growth, controlling for measures of firm resources, characteristics of the entrepreneur, and aspects of the environment. The central research question is: How strong is the relationship between dynamic capabilities and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090511

The role of R&D in new firm growth

Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090550

Innovative start-up patenting: a new approach towards identification and determinants

Wolf, Tina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661183

Self-Employment after Socialism: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551526

Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-country Investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational activities and civic norms. We test the hypothesis that social capital has a positive impact on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509227

Serial Entrepreneurship: Differentiating Direct from Latent Re-entrants

Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090465

The Internationalization of Science and its Influence on Academic Entrepreneurship

Krabel, Stefan; Siegel, Donald S.; Slavtchev, Viktor - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We conjecture that the mobility of academic scientists increases the propensity of such agents to engage in academic entrepreneurship. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of researchers at the Max Planck Society in Germany. We find that mobile scientists are more likely to become nascent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090528

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last