Home-field advantage: location decisions of Portuguese entrepreneurs

By Octávio Figueiredo, Paulo Guimarães, Douglas P. Woodward. 2002

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines (2015, positive): “Closely related work comes from the local bias of entrepreneurship literature, including Figueiredo, Guimaraes, and Woodward (2002), Michelacci and Silva (2007), and Dahl and Sorenson (2007).”
Regional knowledge, entrepreneurial culture, and innovative start-ups over time and space―an empirical investigation (2018, background): “Second, founders have a pronounced tendency to locate their firms in close spatial proximity to their former workplace, or near where they reside (Figueiredo et al. 2002; Dahl and Sorenson 2009).”
Taxation, corruption, and growth (2016, neutral): “Recent empirical work also highlights that entrepreneurs disproportionately operate in their home regions (e.g., Figueiredo et al. 2002, Michelacci and Silva 2007), which limits the extent to which entrepreneurs would simply move to better opportunities.”
Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials (2012, neutral): “13See, e.g., Becker and Henderson (2000) and Figueiredo et al. (2002). dfij that equals one if firm f chooses location j and zero otherwise, the log-likelihood of the conditional logit model becomes: lnLCL = ∑ f ∑ j dfij ln pij = ∑ i ∑ j nij ln pij , where nij represents the number of firms in…”
Why Butterflies Don’t Leave: Locational Behavior of Entrepreneurial Firms (2007, background): “…studies have argued that a new firm is highly likely to start in the home region of its founder (Mueller and Morgan 1962; Reynolds and White 1997; Figueiredo, Guimaraes, and Woodward 2002; Hanson 2003) and to stay in that region (Katona and Morgan 1952; Ellinger 1977; Pellenbarg, Van Wissen, and…”
New Firm Entry, Survival, and Growth in the United States: A Comparison of Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas (2008, background): “This is particularly true of new businesses, who are often constrained to locate within the same region where the founder lives ( Figueiredo, Guimaraes, & Woodward, 2002 ; Meester, 2004 ).”
Proximity to knowledge sources and the location of knowledge-based start-ups (2010, background): “Results obtained by Figueiredo et al. (2002) show that founders of new firms in”
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2014, background): “, Figueiredo et al. 2009). For a typical estimate in this regard, Glaeser and Kerr (2009) estimate that a 10% higher base of incumbent firms is associated with a 6% higher number of start-ups in the city-industry.”