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We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs … increases the rate of spinoffs from original firms. Indeed, if employers have all the bargaining power vis-à-vis their employees …, optimal entry of original firms and all subsequent employee spinoffs is achieved, despite the fact that the original firm can …
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There is little understanding of how clusters evolve, and where. While dynamic analyses of clusters hardly exist, this is especially true for spatial clustering of service industries. We take an evolutionary perspective to describe and explain why the Dutch banking cluster clustered in the...
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The adequate role of Darwinist concepts in evolutionary economics has long been a contentious issue. The controversy has recently been rekindled and modified by the position of "Universal Darwinism", most prominently favored by Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen. They argue that the...
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Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Evolution der IT-Outsourcing-Industrie in Deutschland von 1990 bis 2006 aus Sicht der Industrielebenszyklusforschung. Ein neu erarbeiteter Datensatz wird daraufhin analysiert, inwieweit ein Shakeout vorliegt bzw. in welchen Punkten sich die Entwicklung in einer...
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During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of...
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The theory predicts that spino s of successful parents are more successful than others. The success of the parents can be measured in two ways, either in terms of their survival duration or concerning their innovative activity. In this paper, the survival chances of spino s in the German...
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investigated in the literature. However, the role of teams for spinoffs has received little scholarly attention. On one hand … emergence of different types of spinoffs depending on specific organizational arrangements. …
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Spinoffs frms are an important source of industry dynamics and innovation. While an emerging body of literature … identifies strategic disagreements and ideas as determinants of spinoffs, neither of them can completely explain the spinoff … process. Mere disagreements or brilliant flashes of ideas do not always lead to spinoffs. This study brings individual level …
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Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and … find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors … investigated pulled spinoffs (where the parent company continues after they are founded) generally have the lowest exit hazards …
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Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and … find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors … investigated pulled spinoffs (where the parent company continues after they are founded) generally have the lowest exit hazards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319475