Researchers in corporate strategy have long argued that resource "relatedness" contributes to a firm’s competitive advantage. One implication is that entries made by a firm into businesses that are closely related to the firm’s existing businesses should have higher survival rates than...

This study examines the extent to which wage-earning workers are simultaneously self-employed, a phenomenon not thoroughly investigated in earlier studies. We use matched employee-employer databases to present a detailed investigation of self-employment patterns within the post industrial...