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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery

Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998

This paper reports on a comprehensive study of the role of SMEs for job creation and regional economic well-being in Sweden during the 1990-93 recession period as well as the years immediately preceding and following that period. It is found that SMEs were over-represented as job creators across...

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Methodological Approaches to Entrepreneurship: Past research and Suggestions for the Future

Davidsson, Per - 2005

This journal aims at developing and sharing some ideas on methodological development in entrepreneurship research … literature as regards what "entrepreneurship" is, and what entrepreneurship research should study, it may be useful to first set … entrepreneurship as a scholarly domain it is important that the phenomenon called "entrepreneurship" be defined as unambiguously as …

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The business platform : developing an instrument to gauge and assist the development of young firms

Davidsson, Per; Klofsten, Magnus - 2003

The research presented here addresses the following problems that we perceive in research on the development of young firms. First, we feel there is a lack of holistic, yet quantifiable and generalizable ways to assess the state of newly started firms. Quantitative research typically relies on...

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Entrepreneurship and small business research: how do we get further?

Davidsson, Per - 1991

to start from scratch, I see a number of problems within the field of entrepreneurship and small business research. It … aiming at the core issues: determinants of entrepreneurship and the role of entrepreneurship and small businesses in the …

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Empirical analysis of growth factors using Swedish data

Davidsson, Per; Kirchhoff, Bruce; Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser; … - 2002

Empirical research conducted on economic sectors in the U.S., Germany, Australia and Scotland has shown that factors such as age, size, location, legal form, and industry are related to business growth rates. Much of this research has focused on manufacturing firms thus providing little...

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Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capabilities: A Review, Model and Research Agenda

Zahra, Shaker A.; Sapienza, Harry J.; Davidsson, Per - 2006

The emergent literature on dynamic capabilities and their role in value creation is riddled with inconsistencies, overlapping definitions, and outright contradictions. Yet, the theoretical and practical importance of developing and applying dynamic capabilities to sus-tain a firm?s competitive...

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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth

Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000

specifically on growth, we also have the observation that longitudinal designs are generally lacking in entrepreneurship research … longitu-dinal studies in entrepreneurship research as a major impediment (Aldrich & Baker, 1997, p. 389; Sex-ton, 1997, p. 407 …

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Entrepreneurship and small business management

Schöllhammer, Hans; Kuriloff, Arthur H. - 1979

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Small business management : an entrepreneurial emphasis

Longenecker, Justin G.; Moore, Carlos W.; Petty, J. William - 2003 - 12. ed

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New enterprises and small business management : the problems of establishing and operating a small business

Donham, Paul; Day, John S. - 1959

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