Which Firms Die? A Look at Manufacturing Firm Exit in Ghana

By G. Frazer. Economic development and cultural change, 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Entrepreneurship and innovation in Ghana: enterprising Africa (2009, background): “Small firms are therefore less productive and have lower survival and growth rates (Van Dijk 1997; Teal 1998; Frazer 2005 ).”
• Enterprise Growth and Survival in Vietnam: Does Government Support Matter? (2009, background): “Therefore we address two of the key problems raised by Freeman et al. (2005). 12.”
• Foreign Presence, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Ghana (2010, background): “7 We now turn to Table 4, which shows results for the modified model (11) in order to check level and growth effects of foreign presence in a sector.”
• What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa? (2005, unknown): “Frazer (2005) documents strong empirical evidence of a positive association between productivity and the likelihood of firm survival among Ghanaian manufacturing firms. The results imply that a one standard deviation increase in total factor productivity is associated with a 1.8 percentage point fal”
• Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, unknown): “In Ghana, this is true for both larger firms and older firms (Frazer 2005).”
• Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “This implies that larger businesses grow faster than small businesses (Biesebroeck, 2005; Frazer, 2005; Roper, 1999), which leads to our fourth hypothesis: H4: Growth is positively associated with firm size.”
• The Economic Legacy of Civil War (2013, unknown): “According to the existing literature on firm destruction in developing countries, small firms and large unproductive firms face the highest odds to disappear (Söderbom, Teal, and Wanbugu 2005; Frazer 2005; Söderbom and Teal 2000; Hardling, Soderbom, and Teal 2006).”