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Innovation and the determinants of firm survival

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - 2006

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - 2002

Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by...

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On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the production of combat success, formalized in a military...

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Start-up success of freelancers: new microeconometric evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Merz, Joachim; Paic, Peter - 2006

If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...

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Determinants of business success: an examination of Asian-owned businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia M.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2007

Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...

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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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How successful have trade unions been? A utility-based indicator of union well-being

Pencavel, John H. - 2008

Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are rearranged to derive measures of union success or...

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Why do leaders matter? The role of expert knowledge

Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008

Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders' characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of...

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The Recent Economic Performance of Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada and the U.S.

Pivnenko, Sergiy; DeVoretz, Don J. - 2003

This paper explores the relative success of ethnic and immigrant Ukrainians in Canada and in the United States. We found evidence for both a sheepskin and citizenship effects, which partially explains the strong economic performance of Ukrainian immigrants in Canada. Ukrainian immigrants to the...

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Entrepreneurship: origins and returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R.; Røed, Knut; … - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited...

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