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What's good for the goose ain't good for the gander : cock-eyed counterfactuals and the performance effects of R&D
Coad, Alexander; Mathew, Nanditha; Pugliese, Emanuele - 2017
We investigate the effects of R&D investment on performance outcomes (sales growth and relative profitability) for …&D on firm performance, some find that firms investing in R&D do not perform significantly better, in some cases, even … perform worse than their non-investing counterparts. We claim that the effects of R&D on performance are often mis …
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What's good for the goose ain't good for the gander : heterogeneous innovation capabilities and the performance effects of R&D : editor's choice
Coad, Alexander; Mathew, Nanditha; Pugliese, Emanuele - In: Industrial and corporate change 29 (2020) 3, pp. 621-644
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Uncovering value drivers of high performance soccer players
Serna Rodríguez, Maribel; Ramírez, Andrés; Coad, … - In: Journal of sports economics 20 (2019) 6, pp. 819-849
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Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms : Theory, Definitions, and Measurement
Coad, Alexander; Bornhäll, Anders; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; … - 2024
This open access book goes into the details of the characteristics of scale-ups, touching upon various theoretical perspectives (stages of growth models, the role of intangible capital, the tradeoffs between fixed costs and marginal costs) relating to firm growth, to provide a clear definition...
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Like milk or wine : does firm performance improve with age?
Coad, Alexander; Segarra Blasco, Agustí; Teruel, Mercedes - 2010
Our empirical literature review shows that little is known about how firm performance changes with age, presumably … because of the paucity of data on firm age. For Spanish manufacturing firms, we analyse the firm performance related to firm … hand, we also found evidence that firm performance deteriorates with age. Older firms have lower expected growth rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662921
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Investigating the exponential age distribution of firms
Coad, Alexander - 2010
While several plots of the aggregate age distribution suggest that firm age is exponentially distributed, we find some departures from the exponential benchmark. At the lower tail, we find that very young establishments are more numerous than expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938885
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Investigating the exponential age distribution of firms
Coad, Alexander - 2009
While several plots of the aggregate age distribution suggest that firm age is exponentially distributed, we find some departures from the exponential benchmark. At the lower tail, we find that very young establishments are more numerous than expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948003
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Firm growth : empirical analysis
Coad, Alexander; Hölzl, Werner - 2010
Recent research has led to the empirical regularity that firm growth rate distributions are heavy tailed. This finding implies that a few firms experience spectacular growth rates and decline, but that most firms have marginal growth rates. The literature on high growth firms shows that high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948047
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The growth and decline of small firms in developing countries
Coad, Alexander; Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2008
Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries. The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairly representative of the structure of small business in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875536
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Investigating the exponential age distribution of firms
Coad, Alexander - 2010
While several plots of the aggregate age distribution suggest that firm age is exponentially distributed, we find some departures from the exponential benchmark. At the lower tail, we find that very young establishments are more numerous than expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966044