Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small … business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small … survival are derived from recent empirical evidence in related studies. The potential drivers of success are also derived from …

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small … business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (self-employed) small … survival are derived from recent empirical evidence in related studies. The potential drivers of success are also derived from …

We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi …-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be … rather pronounced positive influence on survival rates, while the relationship between the nationwide development of the …

that we would expect the effect of market concentration on firm survival to be different according to whether an industry … concentration rates reduce the survival of new plants but only in markets marked by low entry and exit rates. Specifically, a 10 … percent increase in the 5-firm concentration ratio or the Herfindahl index in a dynamic market, raises the survival rate of …

survival of the fitter principle with respect to productivity, while relative profitability does not seem to exert any … significant effect on survival probabilities. However, the contribution of firm relative "fitness" to the total firm exit rates …

the determinants of entrepreneurial persistence. Next to observed survival we also construct a hybrid persistence measure … indicators emphasize different aspects of persistence. For the survival indicator, the predictive power is concentrated in … differ in survival chances, but they are more likely to lack a high psychological commitment to their business ventures. …