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Taxation, Labor Market Policy and High-Impact Entrepreneurship

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 10 (2010) 3, pp. 275-296

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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...

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Gazelles as job creators: a survey and interpretation of the evidence

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - In: Small Business Economics 35 (2010) 2, pp. 227-244

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What happens to gazelles? The importance of dynamic management strategy

Parker, Simon; Storey, David; Witteloostuijn, Arjen - In: Small Business Economics 35 (2010) 2, pp. 203-226

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Job Creation and the Intra-distribution Dynamics of the Firm Size Distribution

Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) - 2011

likelihood of firms to become Gazelles. Increasing market growth, by contrast, decreases the exit hazards for incumbent firms and … slightly increases the likelihood of firms to be Gazelles. Finally, an increase in the birth size of firms increases the … probability of young firms to be Gazelles with strongest effects for the smallest firms. …

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Gazelles, Industry Growth and Structural Change

Bos, J.W.B.; Stam, E. - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2011

This paper examines to what extent gazelles are the drivers of the growth of industries and structural change. To this … purpose we analyze gazelles over a 12 year period (annually from 1997 until 2008) in the Netherlands, and relate them to the … presence of gazelles and industry (employment) growth (with 43 two digit industries). An increase in the presence of gazelles …

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Are high-growth firms one-hit wonders? Evidence from Sweden

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Halvarsson, Daniel - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 2, pp. 361-383

Most firms do not grow, and a small number of high-growth firms seem to create most new jobs. These firms have therefore received increasing attention among policymakers. The question is whether high-growth tends to persist? We investigate this question using firm-level data from Sweden during...

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Identifying High-Growth Firms

Halvarsson, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

This paper investigates the role(s) of high-growth firms (HGFs) in the robust growth-rate distribution. HGFs are identified as firms for which the growth-rate distribution exhibits power-law decay. In contrast to the traditional means of identifying HGFs, a distributional approach eliminates the...

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Eco-Innovation and Firm Growth: Do Green Gazelles Run Faster? Microeconometric Evidence from a Sample of European Firms

Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Quatraro, Francesco - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of eco-innovation on firms' growth processes, with a special focus on gazelles, i … effects of generic innovation on firms' growth, and this is particularly true for gazelles, which actually appear to run …

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Using the eurostat-OECD definition of high-growth firms: a cautionary note

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Johansson, Dan; Halvarsson, Daniel - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 4 (2015) 1, pp. 50-56

Purpose – High-growth firms (HGFs) have attracted an increasing amount of attention from researchers and policymakers, and the Eurostat-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) definition of HGFs has become increasingly popular. The paper aims to discuss this issue....

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