new firms are a manifestation of diversity and that their subsequent survival is shaped by the selectionprocess. Despite …

survival and the probability that an entrepreneur starts employing personnel and maintains as an employer for a longer period …

Recent studies show that the likelihood of survival differs significantly across firms. Both firm and industry …-specific characteristics shape new-firm survival during the first years subsequent to entry. However, in the longer run, most of the industry … factors have little influence on the likelihood of survival, but firm-specific characteristics still exert a considerable …

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to … therelationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, infact, not be the same in …. The resultssuggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth arestrikingly …