We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

accuracy are low. To forecast the two innovation-related performance outcomes well, we only need to include a set of variables … 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 …

Building on job matching theory, we model the effect of collective turnover on workplace performance as the total of … turnover level. The resulting theoretical turnover-performance relationship is generally curvilinear, nesting all the hitherto …

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …

the personality characteristic of generalized self-efficacy influences start-up performance as measured by a broad set of … well as growthoriented outcomes such as job creation and innovation. We find statistically significant and economically … stronger when focusing on the growth-oriented outcome of innovation. Furthermore, we observe that generalized self-efficacy is …

supports innovation activities, especially early in the life cycle of firms. …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

job creation, expansion and innovation activities for up to 40 months after business formation. Using self … unique dataset of German start-ups from unemployment and non-unemployment - that the later business performance is better …, the higher they score on this index. Effects are particularly strong for growth oriented outcomes like innovation and …