Does venture capital (VC) investment yield economic growth? A large literature studies the effect of VC investments on … firm-level activity, but its effects on economic growth are less well understood. We identify the effect of VC investment … hubs are an important contributor to regional economic growth. …

less flexible ownership structure does not exploit all their growth potential. …

To help untangle the inconsistency in prior performance studies for new venture internationalization, the dynamic … internationalization where the associated resources and risk is balanced between local and foreign markets. In contrast, sales growth is …-shaped relationship with survival, while the opposite U-shaped relationship exists with sales growth. Copyright Springer Science …

young firms. Owner-level factors such as gender, growth intentions and experience also influenced growth performance among …This study compares the performance of new businesses owned by recent immigrants with that of other new firms. It … performance. The results provide empirical evidence that young immigrant-owned exporter firms outperformed young domestically …

We discuss recent research on the growth of chains in the retail and service sectors, and point out the role of …

The performance implications of family ownership have been studied extensively. However, studies that investigate the … influence of family ownership on small business growth remain scarce and suffer from several shortcomings. To remedy these … business growth. First, this study shows that there is a negative, although non-monotonic, relationship between family …