This paper explores the financial characteristics of successful Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It asks whether industry membership and early growth history play a role in shaping these financial characteristics. Industry comparisons are based on production activity and...

Ce document porte sur les caracteristiques financieres des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) canadiennes prosperes.

This paper explores the financial characteristics of successful Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Ce document comprend un examen des facteurs qui sous-tendent l'echec d'une entreprise ainsi qu'une comparaison des mecanismes qui menent a la faillite des jeunes entreprises et des plus anciennes. Il donne a penser qu'il existe des differences systematiques entre les determinants des faillites...

This paper examines the factors underlying firm failure, and compares the failure mechanisms for young firms against those of older organizations. This paper suggests that there are systematic differences between the determinants of firm failure for firms that fail early in life and those that...

Attempts to discover individual differences related to entrepreneurial behavior have had limited success and even less acceptance amongst management scholars. Taking a different approach this study explores the relationship between a heritable biological characteristic of the individual,...

The Ottawa Technology Cluster is distinctive forseveral reasons, including its development in the absence of significantventure capital opportunities and the initial lack of competition among itsfirms in the product market.Although many qualitative studies existregarding this cluster, this...