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New venture survival and growth: does the fog lift?
Coad, Alex; Storey, David J; Roberts, Richard G; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013
Does our ability to predict the performance of new ventures improve in the years after start-up? We investigate the growth and survival of 6247 new ventures that are tracked using the customer records at Barclays Bank. We put forward Gambler’s Ruin as a simple theory for understanding new...
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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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High-Growth Firms: Stylized Facts and Conflicting Results
Moreno, Fabiana; Coad, Alex - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2015
increasing interest from entrepreneurship scholars. By analysing recent findings in the literature of high growth firms, this …
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Entrepreneurship, poverty, and Asia: Moving beyond subsistence entrepreneurship
Bruton, Garry; Ahlstrom, David; Si, Steven - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 32 (2015) 1, pp. 1-22
Asia have largely focused on subsistence entrepreneurship rather than on creating ventures that empower them to break out … entrepreneur’s standard of living. This article initially reviews what we know about entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty in …, “Asia & Poverty: Closing the Great Divide through Entrepreneurship & Innovation,” on new approaches to entrepreneurship to …
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Economic Dynamism: Lessons from a Comparison of the United States and Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the economy. Particular … aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors, who are renowned …
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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-tech Industries?
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2014
It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765674
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Institutional environment, human capital, and firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam
Gries, Thomas; Dung, Ha van - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2014
In this paper, we investigate the impacts of the institutional environment and the entrepreneur’s education on firm growth in Vietnam. Using a firm-level dataset, we obtain a balanced panel data from 2006 to 2009 for 37,788 registered enterprises from a unique data set. We analyze the effects...
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Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India
Coad, Alex; Tamvada, Jaganaddha - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 2, pp. 383-400
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The Economic Contribution of High-Growth Firms: Do Policy Implications Depend on the Choice of Growth Indicator?
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 14 (2014) 3, pp. 337-365
Prior studies have defined high-growth firms (HGFs) in terms of growth in firm employment or firm sales, and primarily analyzed their contribution to overall employment growth. In this paper we define HGFs using the commonly applied growth indicators (employment and sales), but also add...
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Intra-firm orientations and their influence on firm growth: The case of Russian SMEs
Kulikov, Alexander V.; Shirokova, Galina V. - Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State … - 2010
The results of survey of specific sets of deliberate intra-firm activities called intra-firm orientations are discussed. The authors distinguish between entrepreneurial orientation, change orientation and knowledge orientation. Factor analysis and structure equation modelling methods are used to...
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