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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics : Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz - 2014
-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include organizational capital accumulation and management practices, financial … organization and innovation. Second, among theories we analyze, organizational capital and management practices are the most …
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Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young
Haltiwanger, John - 2014
The view that small businesses create the most jobs remains appealing to policymakers and small business advocates. Using data from the Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics and Longitudinal Business Database, we explore the many issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the...
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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the Sba
Brown, J. David - 2015
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Martin, Leslie A. - 2014
An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...
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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth
Fischer, Greg - 2015
We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
Cai, Jing - 2017
.1 percent, and also significantly increased profit, factors, inputs, the number of partners, borrowing, and a management score … meetings improved supplier-client matching. (6) Firms whose managers discussed management, partners, or finance improved more …
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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2015
Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms …
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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin%u2019s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …
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Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment : a Quuality Laddermodel Interpretation
Klette, Tor Jakob - 2011
We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth. The model for firm growth is a partial equilibrium model drawing on the quality ladder models in the macro growth literature, but also on the literature on patent races and the...
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Leverage, Investment, and Firm Growth
Lang, Larry - 2010
We show that there is a negative relation between leverage and future growth at the firm level and, for diversified firms, at the segment level. Further, this negative relation between leverage and growth holds for firms with low Tobin's q, but not for high-q firms or firms in high-q industries....
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