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Enforcing covenants not to compete : the life-cycle impact on new firms
Starr, Evan; Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Sakakibara, Mariko - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476411
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Entrepreneurship through employee mobility, innovation, and growth
Baslandze, Salomé - 2022
employees of the incumbent firms. By focusing on innovating spinouts identified through the inventor mobility in the patent data … technological lead spawn more successful spinouts. Building on these observations, I build a structural model of innovation and firm … spinouts. The spinout dynamics affect productivity growth through four main channels: direct entry, incumbents' disincentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373093
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Entrepreneurship through employee mobility, innovation, and growth
Baslandze, Salomé - 2022
employees of the incumbent firms. By focusing on innovating spinouts identified through the inventor mobility in the patent data … technological lead spawn more successful spinouts. Building on these observations, I build a structural model of innovation and firm … spinouts. The spinout dynamics affect productivity growth through four main channels: direct entry, incumbents' disincentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278531
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Incidence and performance of spinouts and incumbent new ventures : role of selection and redeployability within parent firms
Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Sakakibara, Mariko - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668856
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Talking business: new evidence on how language shapes economic behaviour
Campo, Francesco; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2020
We provide a large scale within-country analysis of the effect of language future time reference (FTR) on the choice of being an entrepreneur using individual-level data from Switzerland, a country characterized by a unique long-standing multilingualism and a large share of immigrant population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316956
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Risk attitudes and profits among small enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380730
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Surviving against the tide : are new businesses in innovative industries Less affected by general economic trends?
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - 2014
We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...
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Innovative start-up patenting : a new approach towards identification and determinants
Wolf, Tina - 2013
There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784061
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Grown-up business cycles
Pugsley, Benjamin; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2014
We document two striking facts about U.S. firm dynamics and interpret their significance for aggregate employment dynamics. The first observation is the steady decline in the firm entry rate over the last thirty years, and the second is the gradual shift of employment from younger to older firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459706
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The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams : evidence from a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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