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Afterlife - who takes heart for restart?

Metzger, George (contributor) - 2006

The performance of young and newly founded firms depends largely to the human capital of the firm owner. The entrepreneur is therefore one of the main success factors for the firm. Yet entrepreneurs differ considerably in their background and characteristics. Particularly, founders’ individual...

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Founder's human capital, entry strategies and start-up size

Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Kathrin; Niefert, Michaela - 2009

entry strategies. The four main groups of entry strategies are independency entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship …, spin-out entrepreneurship and necessity entrepreneurship. The results indicate that firms conducting R&D continuously start … new market opportunities as well as spin-out entrepreneurship exhibit a higher initial size while start-ups established …

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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...

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The growth and human capital structure of new firms over the business cycle

Brixy, Udo; Murmann, Martin - 2016

employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We …

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Employment growth in newly established firms : is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?

Müller, Kathrin - 2009

entrepreneurship …

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Exploring the relationship between scientist human capital and firm performance : the case of biomedical academic entrepreneurs in the SBIR program

Toole, Andrew A. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2007

Do academic scientists bring valuable human capital to the companies they found or join? If so, what are the particular skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these questions using a particular group of academic...

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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees

Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...

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