The current paper explores the antecedents of small business owners' decision to exploit identified opportunities for innovation. Drawing on social psychology, entrepreneurship and organizational behavior literature three potential antecedents are proposed: attitude towards the opportunity,...

The relation between profits and the number of firms in a market is one of the essential topics in the field of industrial organization. Usually, the relation is modeled in an error-correction framework where profits and/or the number of firms respond to out-of-equilibrium situations. In an...

Many empirical size distributions in economics and elsewhere follow Zipf?s law. Starting from the Gibrat assumption, it is essential to add a second as-sumption to explain this phenomenon.

This paper investigates the impact of various entrepreneurial motives and institutional conditions on entrepreneurial aspirations in terms of innovativeness, job growth expectations and export orientation. We estimate a two-equation model explaining entrepreneurial motivations and...

This article investigates the relationship between knowledge management (KM), innovation and firm performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees), based on a panel of more than 400 Dutch firms. Regression analyses explain the variations in sales turnover growth from various measures of KM...

This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast growing and innovative industries in six...

Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across countries have attracted the attention of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural as well as economic influences are assumed to play a role. This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on...

Dit rapport geeft inzicht in de toenemende groei van het aantal startende etnische ondernemers. Met behulp van een model wordt een beeld geschetst van de rol van de donorgroep (groep waarbinnen de starter leeft/werkt) waarin de bedrijven worden gestart.

This study puts forward the relevance of investigating the relation between innovation and firm size, acknowledging differences between process innovation and product innovation. From different strands in economic literature, the relevance of innovation in explaining average firm size has been...

We investigate the relationship between a country’s prevalence of new ventures and its rate of economic growth, while distinguishing between export-oriented new ventures and domestic new ventures. It is generally acknowledged that new venture creation as well as export activity may both be...