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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David - 2019
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Home Ownership and Home Equity Promote Entrepreneurial Activity
Hassink, Wolter H.J; Millone, Matteo; Mocking, Remco; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of private real estate collateral on entrepreneurial lending and entrepreneurial activity in the Netherlands. The residential collateral channel is especially relevant for sole-proprietors who own a business with unlimited liability. We used administrative data on...
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Job Creation by Firms in Denmark
Ibsen, Rikke - 2011
In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the question if it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributing much less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis...
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance : A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in – otherwise random – team composition is...
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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance : A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...
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The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics : A Review Towards a New View
Hessels, Jolanda - 2017
Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated …. It is moreover also because there is no unified scientific approach towards the role of entrepreneurship in economic …
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Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance
Rosendahl Huber, Laura - 2014
specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program …
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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
Forth, John - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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Managerial Performance of a Female-Owned and Home-Based Firm
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi; Platt, Katarzyna Anna; Shim, Hyoung - 2021
Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on … gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314725
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Size of Training Firms : The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers
Müller, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
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