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How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-Ups?
Xi, Guoqian - 2017
Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? And how do the determinants of survival differ between the two entry modes? Using a large French...
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Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship : New Venture Start-Up Versus Business Takeover
Xi, Guoqian - 2017
Many entrepreneurs start their ventures while retaining jobs in wage employment; this phenomenon is called hybrid entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. business takeover) of hybrid entrepreneurs. Our study aims to close this gap by investigating the...
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …
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Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises : A Review
Bakhtiari, Sasan - 2020
Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We …
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Access to Finance Among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2020
In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...
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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level : Evidence from SBA Loans
Brown, J. David - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...
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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Ubfal, Diego - 2019
A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...
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Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts
Brunello, Giorgio - 2014
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
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Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series
Neumark, David - 2013
We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...
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Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2022
The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...
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