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Inter Vivos Transfers of Ownership in Family Firms

Hines, James R, Jr - 2016

This paper examines the determinants of inter vivos (lifetime) transfers of ownership in German family firms between 2000 and 2013. Survey evidence indicates that owners of larger firms, and firms with strong current business conditions, transfer ownership at higher rates than others. When a...

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Inside the Family Firm : The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance

Bennedsen, Morten - 2006

external chief executive officer (CEO). The paper uses variation in CEO succession decisions that result from the gender of a …

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Family Firms

Burkart, Mike - 2002

We present a model of succession in a firm controlled and managed by its founder. The founder decides between hiring a …

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Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Gompers, Paul - 2006

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …

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From Farming to International Business : The Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Growing Economy

Munshi, Kaivan - 2007

Entrepreneurship has been traditionally concentrated in the hands of a few small communities in most developing …

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The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Ashraf, Nava; Delfino, Alexia; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in which women face disadvantages, including discrimination from workers … in middle-income countries, where the returns to entrepreneurship are high enough to offset gender-based costs and both … more usually in industries with low levels of skilled workers. Despite the entrepreneurship rate's reversal of the U …

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Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work

Kwan, Alan; Matthies, Ben; Townsend, Richard R.; Xu, Ting - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Using a novel firm-level remote work measure created from big data on Internet activity, we show that firms with higher remote work during the pandemic are more likely to see their employees becoming entrepreneurs. This effect holds both unconditionally and relative to other types of job...

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Native-Immigrant Entrepreneurial Synergies

Zhao, Jin; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine the performance of startups co-founded by immigrant and native teams. Leveraging unique data linking startups to founders' and employees' employment and education histories, we find native-migrant teams outperform native-only and migrant-only teams. Native-migrant startups have larger...

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Entrepreneurial Experimentation Design for Venture Finance

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper examines how entrepreneurs strategically design experiments to convince venture capitalists (VCs) to fund their projects when investors interpret data through heterogeneous statistical frameworks. Drawing on Liang (2021)'s model of games with incomplete information played by...

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Database, Methodological Tools, and Research Opportunities : Creative Destruction Lab and Early-Stage Technology Ventures

Sariri, Amir; Gatov, Evgenia; Neal, Geneva; Robinson, Kyle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We introduce a new dataset built from a global non-profit startup program for early-stage high-technology startups called Creative Destruction Lab (CDL). The early stages of startup formation remain one of the least understood aspects of firm growth. The nature of this program and the data...

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