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High-growth entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Persistent high-growth firms in China's manufacturing
Moschella, Daniele; Tamagni, Federico; Yu, Xiaodan - 2017
This article investigates the characteristics of high-growth (HG) firms in Chinese manufacturing, and further explores the effects of firm characteristics on persistence of high-growth. We employ a multidimensional definition of HG firms that simultaneously accounts for growth of sales and...
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The productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms
Murmann, Martin - 2017
Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young...
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The mediating role of competitive and collaborative orientations in boosting entrepreneurial orientation’s impact on firm performance
Kusa, Rafał - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 11 (2023) 4, pp. 25-42
managerial practice and they can be a subject of research focused on organizational entrepreneurship. Regarding theory … to the literature on entrepreneurship and inter-organizational relationships. Specifically, this study explains the role …
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The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival
Koch, Melanie; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2024
Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is more risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2,100 small businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple bilateral regression and also when we control for a...
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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Germany
Audretsch, David B. - 2017
aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We …, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …
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The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants
Prantl, Susanne - 2010
in firm entry regulation. After German reunification, East and West Germany faced different economic conditions, but fell …
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What does (or does not) determine persistent corporate high-growth
Bianchini, Stefano; Bottazzi, Giulio; Tamagni, Federico - 2014
Theoretical and empirical studies of industry dynamics have extensively focused on the process of growth. Theory predicts that production efficiency, profitability and financial status are central channels through which some firms can survive, grow and eventually achieve outstanding growth...
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Cross-country evidence on start-up dynamics
Calvino, Flavio; Criscuolo, Chiara; Menon, Carlo - 2015
The report provides a description of start-up dynamics exploiting the richness of the recently collected DynEmp v.2 database. The contribution of new firms in terms of new jobs to the existing workforce can be expressed as a combination of four different elements: the start-up rate; the average...
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New firm survival : the interdependence between regional externalities and innovativeness
Ebert, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas; Brixy, Udo - 2015
This paper provides evidence that the effect of agglomeration externalities on survival is moderated by the start-up's innovative behavior. It is shown that localization externalities are prevalent particularly in non-high-tech environments and unfold a positive influence on survival for less...
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