High neonatal mortality is one of the most salient 'facts' about firm performance in the industrial organisation literature. We model firm survival and examine the relative influence of firm, industry and macroeconomic factors on survival for new vis-à-vis incumbent firms in Australia. In...

This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect’ of founders’ human capital on entrepreneurial ventures’ performance. More specifically, we empirically explore the impact of entrepreneurs’ human capital on a firm’s sales growth performance by disentangling the...

A challenge for applied studies of innovation is to find quality-adjusted and unbiased measures for the extent of innovative activity in firms. This paper considers, in the light of the uses for these measures, how well we expect these common firm-level indicators quantify innovative services...