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Ability Matching and Survival of Start-Ups
Müller, Bettina - 2010
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
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Is Portuguese regional growth schumpeterian? An empirical assessment of the relation between schooling, firm destruction and firm productivity
Teixeira, Aurora Amélia Castro; Vieira, Pedro Cosme - 2004
capital, per capita income and productivity seems to be at odds with the micro evidence reported. Specifically, at the economy … level the bulk of studies found a positive relation between human capital accumulation and productivity dynamics (Michie et … – low productivity and low risk or high productivity and high risk. In order for a low productivity-low risk firm to become …
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The impact of regional and functional integration on the post-entry performance of knowledge intensive business service firms
Koch, Andreas; Strotmann, Harald - 2004
the firms’ post-entry development. Nevertheless, few existing studies are dealing with questions of entrepreneurship in …-Classification: D21, J23, L80, O30 Keywords: Employment growth; Entrepreneurship; Entry; Innovation; Knowledge-intensive business …
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Entrepreneurship and Path Dependency in a Regional Context
Florkowski, Sabrina - 2010
between entrepreneurship and path dependency as two opposing concepts. Rather, we posit that these concepts are related to … entrepreneurship in a regional context, focusing in particular on their complementary nature. The conceptual framework proposed in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332338
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Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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Does Quality make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010
entrepreneurship policy, which can be derived from our findings. …
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The examination of the regional level entrepreneurship: The Spanish case
Szerb, László; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Ács, Zoltán; … - 2012
regional entrepreneurship index that captures the essence of the contextual features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the … Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI). Originally the GEDI has been developed to measure national level of … entrepreneurship. The GEDI refers to the contextual feature of entrepreneurship by focusing on the twelve pillars of entrepreneurial …
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The entrepreneurial performance of the Central and Eastern European regions
Páger, Balázs - 2014
The theoretical concepts about entrepreneurship have changed since the last three decades. It has become one of the … economy (Audretsch and Thurik 2001), it can be seen clearly those shifts which contributed to become entrepreneurship an … continue their economic activity. The entrepreneurship is influenced by those negative and positive factors (for example other …
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A multistate demographic model for firms in the province of Gelderland
Huisman, Corina; Wissen, Leo Van - 2004
In the last two decades researchers from various disciplines have made attempts to model and estimate developments in the size and structure of the population of firms. Although these attempts give useful insights into possible explanatory factors of firm dynamics, the explanatory value, and...
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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany
Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - 2004
We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...
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