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Benefits of Control, capital structure and company growth
Mueller, Elisabeth - 2005
This paper studies the influence of the benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297810
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Benefits of Control, capital structure and company growth
Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper studies the influence of the benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097529
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Human capital and successful academic spin-off
Müller, Bettina - 2006
-survey, this paper studies empirically the impact of human capital on the success of academic spinoffs founding in knowledge and … technology intensive sectors. The focus is thereby on the composition of human capital which is described according to whether or … that it is advantageous to found within a team, but that the human capital composition both for single entrepreneurs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297852
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Personal experience: a most vicious and limited circle!? On the role of entrepreneurial experience for firm survival
Metzger, Georg - 2007
The analysis in this paper gives attention to effects on firm survival which come from entrepreneurial experience. It is likely that different kinds of experience result in different firm developments and therefore in different types of firm exit. Particular emphasis is placed upon the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297929
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Personal Experience: A Most Vicious and Limited Circle!? On the Role of Entrepreneurial Experience for Firm Survival
Metzger, Georg - 2007
The analysis in this paper gives attention to effects on firm survival which come from entrepreneurial experience. It is likely that different kinds of experience result in different firm developments and therefore in different types of firm exit. Particular emphasis is placed upon the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297942
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298851
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Does interdisciplinarity lead to higher employment growth of academic spinoffs?
Müller, Bettina - 2009
Does heterogeneity in the educational backgrounds of the founders matter for firm success? Are team foundations more successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is measured by employment growth. I find that team...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299836
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The growth and human capital structure of new firms over the business cycle
Brixy, Udo; Murmann, Martin - 2016
linked employer-employee data on German start-ups we show that under constant human capital of the firms' founders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569390
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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2020
Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290514
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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435305