Analysis of young, small firms that have closed: delineating successful from unsuccessful closures

By Timothy Bates. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Reconceptualizing entrepreneurial exit : divergent exit routes and their drivers (2010, unknown): “Yet we know that many ongoing businesses are not necessarily successful in terms of operating at a profit (van Witteloostuijn, 1998), and that many entrepreneurial exits are in fact not perceived as failures (Bates, 2005; McGrath, 2006).”
What is entrepreneurial failure? Implications for future research (2016, methodology): “Many of these exits can be seen as ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ as they are at the choice of the entrepreneur (Bates, 2005), and therefore, be a subjective perspective of firm failure.”
Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed (2011, unknown): “3 In this context, we should clarify that exits from entrepreneurship comprise both business failure and business closure (see also Bates, 2005).”
A Three‐Country Comparison of the Business Success versus Failure Prediction Model (2010, background): “Although not all firms that close are failures (Bates 2005), two-thirds of start-ups survive at least two years, but only half survive at least four years (Small Business Administration 2007).”
What Happens to Nascent Entrepreneurs? An Econometric Analysis of the PSED (2006, background): “Bates, 2005 ). Mid-Westerners are significantly less likely to attrit than NEs located in other regions of the USA.”
Stigma and business failure: implications for entrepreneurs’ career choices (2014, background): “Irrespective of whether entrepreneurs perceive their ventures to be successful or failing, they may choose to exit when opportunity and switching costs or other non-economic considerations suggest that more attractive opportunities exist (Bates, 2005).”
Thinking About Entrepreneurial Decision Making (2015, background): “…firm is older (leading to an exit via selling the business; Wennberg, Wiklund, DeTienne, & Cardon, 2010), (3) a more attractive opportunity arises (Bates, 2005), and (4) there is greater conflict (both task and goal conflict) with the business angel who partly funded the venture (Collewaert,…”
What do we really mean when we talk about ‘exit’? A critical review of research on entrepreneurial exit (2014, unknown): “Existing research analysing entrepreneurial exit has focused on the exit of the individual (exit from self-employment) (e.g. Bates, 2005; Hessels et al., 2011; Stam et al., 2010; Sullivan et al., 1997; Van Praag, 2003) or the exit of the firm from the market (organisational exit) (e.g. Balcaen et…”
Entrepreneurs’ attitudes towards failure – an experiential learning approach (2007, background): “The closure process is often experienced as an active learning process that leads to valuable information and knowledge that can be exploited in other entrepreneurial settings (Stokes & Blackburn, 2002: Bates, 2005).”
Making sense of entrepreneurial exit strategies: A typology and test (2015, background): “…nature (i.e., exit of firms from the market and exit of founders from the firm) (Wennberg, 2008), 2) the critical distinction between exit and failure (Bates, 2005; Headd, 2003; Wennberg et al., 2010), and 3) the various routes of entrepreneurial exit (Wennberg, 2008; Wennberg et al., 2011).”
Does innovativeness reduce startup survival rates (2015, unknown): “Alimitationofourstudyisthatwecannotexplicitlyaddressthevariousmodesofexitsandtheirpotentiallydifferentdeterminants (Bates, 2005).”
Failure or voluntary exit? Reassessing the female underperformance hypothesis (2015, methodology): “Recent entrepreneurship articles have demonstrated that the concepts of failure and exit derive from different theoretical perspectives and are driven by different factors (e.g., Bates, 2005; Wennberg et al., 2010).”
Do serial entrepreneurs run successively better-performing businesses? (2013, background): “The PSID does not contain information about why entrepreneurs terminate spells, though prior research suggests that most terminations are voluntary quits rather than involuntary bankruptcies (Bates, 2005; Taylor, 1999).”