Using U.S. Census Bureau special tabulations, we follow a cohort of small (single-establishment) firms formed in 1992 and a cohort of fast growers to 2002 to track their employment changes. Explorative findings showed growing firms as generally a constant share of the economy with a minor...

Establishes an empirically based measure of firm formation dynamics and early growth and answers the question of new firm survival. Using the 1976-1986 United States Establishment Longitudinal Microdata (USELM) files of the U.S. Small Business Administration, an estimate of the number of firms...

The degree to which a firm's performance is dependent on its resources and strategies is widely debated in the literature. We examine this issue by analyzing historical data on the entire population of new independent firms started worldwide in the semiconductor silicon industry for the first 50...