Despite descriptive empirical evidence on start-up numbers and survival rates of young firms, the interaction of market entry decisions and reactions of incumbent competitors is still insufficiently understood in the entrepreneurship literature. Repeated games offer a suitable theoretical...

"This article uses the total population of firms, as contained in the Employee History ('Beschäftigten-Historik') of the IAB, to analyse the dynamics of employment in establishments of different size classes. This analysis is therefore the first of its kind to include all economic sectors for...

"Der Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, die betriebliche Dynamik der Beschäftigungsentwicklung statistisch zu beschreiben. Als Datenbasis dient eine aus der Beschäftigtenstatistik gewonnene Datei, mit der die Beschäftigungsentwicklung von allen Betrieben verfolgt werden kann, die im Zeitraum...

"Der Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, die betriebliche Dynamik der Beschäftigungsentwicklung statistisch zu beschreiben. Als Datenbasis dient eine aus der Beschäftigtenstatistik gewonnene Datei, mit der die Beschäftigungsentwicklung von allen Betrieben verfolgt werden kann, die im Zeitraum...

"This article uses the total population of firms, as contained in the Employee History ('Beschäftigten-Historik') of the IAB, to analyse the dynamics of employment in establishments of different size classes. This analysis is therefore the first of its kind to include all economic sectors for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficacy of Nigeria's oil and gas industry local content (LC) policy, with particular reference to how the policy has enhanced entrepreneurial activities and served as panacea to resolving some of the country's socio-economic challenges...

This paper develops new estimates of export quality, far more extensive than previous efforts, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products during the period 1962-2010. It finds that quality upgrading is particularly rapid during the early stages of development, with the process largely...