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Two's Company: Human Capital Composition and Performance of Entrepreneurial Pairs
Coad, Alex; Timmermans, Bram - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2012
-educated secondary founder have high employment growth, while the opposite combination (Business first, STEM second) has low employment … growth. Pairs of younger individuals have lower survival chances but higher employment growth. Family firms have lower … employment growth, especially when formed with your mother. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599041
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Inter-firm rivalry and firm growth: Is there any evidence of direct competition between firms?
Coad, Alex; Teruel, Mercedes - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2010
Inter-firm competition has received much attention in the theoretical literature, but recent empirical work suggests that the growth rates of rival firms are uncorrelated, and that firm growth can be taken as an essentially independent process. We begin by investigating the correlations of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764621
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Growth paths and survival chances: An application of Gambler's Ruin theory
Coad, Alex; Frankish, Julian; Roberts, Richard G.; … - In: Journal of Business Venturing 28 (2013) 5, pp. 615-632
This paper links new firm survival with growth, with a focus on the patterns in firms' growth paths. We theorise a Gambler's Ruin framework by arguing that new firm performance is best modelled as a random walk process, but that survival is nonrandom and depends primarily on the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011040315
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Like milk or wine: Does firm performance improve with age?
Coad, Alex; Segarra, Agustí; Teruel, Mercedes - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 24 (2013) C, pp. 173-189
capable to convert employment growth into growth of sales, profits and productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048665
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Growth Paths and Survival Chances: An Application of Gambler's Ruin Theory
Coad, Alex; Frankish, Julian; Roberts, Richard; Storey, … - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
This paper links new firm survival with growth, with a focus on the patterns in firms' growth paths. We theorise a Gambler's Ruin framework by arguing that new rm performance is best modelled as a random walk process, but that survival is nonrandom and depends primarily on the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096134
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Processes of firm growth and diversification: theory and evidence
Coad, Alex; Guenther, Christina - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2013
’s (1959) Theory of the Growth of the Firm to formulate hypotheses about growth of employment, assets, and sales in the years … terms of product introductions, is preceded by employment growth. Moreover, we find support that diversification is … positively associated with subsequent asset growth, but negatively associated with subsequent employment growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098656
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High-Growth Firms: Stylized Facts and Conflicting Results
Moreno, Fabiana; Coad, Alex - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2015
High Growth Firms (HGFs) make a considerable contribution to economic growth, and in recent years they have received increasing interest from entrepreneurship scholars. By analysing recent findings in the literature of high growth firms, this study identifies some stylized facts, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189064
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Growth Paths and Survival Chances
Coad, Alex; Frankish, Julian; Roberts, Richard G.; … - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612077
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Business Experience and Start-up Size: Buying More Lottery Tickets Next Time Around?
Coad, Alex; Frankish, Julian; Nightingale, Paul; … - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612079
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New Venture Survival and Growth: When does the fog lift?
Coad, Alex; Frankish, Julian; Roberts, Richard G.; … - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010612093