interactions between firm- and cluster-level determinants on phase-related differences in firm performance between a pre …-crisis level. Our study contributes to the existing literature by corroborating previous findings that the economic performance of …

startup characteristics to forecast the performance of newly started enterprises over a five years' time horizon. The … performance outcomes we consider are involuntary exit, above{average employment growth, a return on assets of above 20 percent … predict startup performance with either high or very high accuracy with the exception of high returns on assets where …

work, we are the first to document the association of digitalization and the performance of firms' support functions. …

We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that … team performance. To verify this prediction, we exploit self-collected data on the first division of German male soccer … different instrumental variable approaches to identify the effect of birthplace diversity on team performance. Our findings …