Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal date set. Personal strategies are operationalized by a behavioral measure of the manners in which small business founders deal with...

This report presents an overview of possible definig, driving factors behind the so-caleld 'new economy'. The humble goal of this study is to provide a framework for policy makers, policy advisors and perhaps also to entrepreneurs, which places theory and implications of 'the new economy' into a...

This report aims to contribute to the discussion on SMEs' exports by carrying out analyses on the INTERSTRATOS data set. Firstly, the discriminating factors between exporting and non-exporting firms are investigated. Secondly, the determinants of export quotes are studied.

This paper describes a model designed to explain the observed developments of the business ownership rate as well as gross entry and exit rates. Besides explaining the past, the model is used for exploring the future using scenario analysis.

Increasingly, the importance of entrepreneurship and self-employment is being acknowledged by both scientists and policy makers. High degrees of entrepreneurship (innovation) and self-employment (the number of independent enterprises) are assumed to contribute to economic growth and job...