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Industry evolution : diversity, selection and the role of learning
Audretsch, David B.; Houweling, Patrick; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000978941
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Do services differ from manufacturing ? : The post-entry performance of firms in Dutch services
Audretsch, David B.; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Roy - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000647001
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Innovation, industry evoluation and employment
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999
industry and employment. These relationsprovide the building blocks of a new industrial policy. The articles areincluded in … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment …, Industry Evolution andEmployment is to suggest that this policy debate has been miscast. There is analternative. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302137
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Productivity convergence in OECD manufacturing industries
Carree, Martin Anthony; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999
The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD …-countries over the period 1972-1992 show large inter-industry differences. One reason for these differences is knowledge and capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302139
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Industry evolution : diversity, selection and the role of learning
Audretsch, David B.; Houweling, Patrick; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to show how institutional and evolutionary economics provide better insights as to whysome firms survive and others do not than does neoclassical economics. At the heart of the evolutionary theory isthe view that new firms are a manifestation of diversity and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533203
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New-firm survival : industry versus firm effects
Audretsch, David B.; Houweling, Patrick; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1997
Recent studies show that the likelihood of survival differs significantly across firms. Both firm and industry … investigate whether firm or industry characteristics dominate. Our evidence suggests that both firm- and industry …-specific characteristics shape new-firm survival during the first years subsequent to entry. However, in the longer run, most of the industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338466
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Sources of growth : the entrepreneurial versus the managed economy
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013422436
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Do small firms compete with large firms?
Audretsch, David B.; Prince, Yvonne M.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1998
Despite the pervasive phenomenon of scale economies the majority of firms hasalways been small firms. The emergence of small firms as a means of economic development on both sides of the Atlantic has been one of the major new topics of economic policy since the 1980s. This has drawn renewed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372838
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Do services differ from manufacturing? : the post-entry performance of firms in Dutch services
Audretsch, David B.; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1997
-entry performance of firms, orwhat happens to firms subsequent to entering an industry. We suggest theoretical reasons why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372851
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The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants
Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Grilo, Isabel - 2007
We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350365