On the Growth of Micro and Small Firms: Evidence from Sweden

By Almas Heshmati. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Development (2009, neutral): “Evidence from Sweden (Heshmati 2001) also suggests that employment creation is negatively related to firm size based on data from the 1990s.”
DETERMINANTS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED FAST GROWING ENTERPRISES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS (2010, background): “For example, Heshmati (2001) found that the degree of indebtedness positively affects sales growth using data on Swedish micro and small firms, while Becchetti and Trovato (2002) documented the effect of external finance on firm growth in the Italian manufacturing industry, apart from the…”
Firm Growth and Liquidity Constraints: A Dynamic Analysis (2006, result): “Furthermore, most of the earlier studies (Dunne and Hughes, 1994; Evans, 1987a, 1987b; Hall, 1987; Heshmati, 2001; Mata, 1994; Nurmi, 2003) have concluded that the negative relationship between firm size and growth is not due to sample selection bias alone.”
Transnational ties and performance of immigrant entrepreneurs: the role of home-country conditions (2014, methodology): “…the empirical firm growth model which was first introduced by Evans (1987a, 1987b) and now is commonly used in firm growth studies (Das 1995; Heshmati 2001; Calvo 2006; Coad and Rao 2008; Cucculelli and Ermini 2012): ln SIZEi;t 2 ln SIZEi;t21 ¼ aþ b1 ln SIZEi;t21 þ b2 ln AGEi;t þ ui;t: ð1Þ…”
The moderating influence of financial literacy on the relationship between access to finance and firm growth in Ghana (2016, background): “…been associated with entrepreneurs’ inability to achieve their objectives (Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Maksimovic 2005; BIS 2013; Coad and Tamvada 2012; Heshmati 2001; Hsu and Chen 2000; Hutchinson and Xavier 2006; Malo and norus 2009; Pissarides 1999; Robson and Obeng 2008) and restrict…”
Entrepreneurship and SME growth: evidence from advanced and laggard transition economies (2011, background): “One strand of the literature, based on the so-called Gibrat’s Law, or the Law of Proportionate Effect (formulated by Robert Gibrat in 1931), maintains that a firm’s growth is independent of its size – a view that became a common wisdom in theoretical and empirical literature (Heshemati, 2001).”
Invariances and Diversities in the Patterns of Industrial Evolution: Some Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Industries (2007, background): “Within a vast literature, see Hart and Prais (1956), Simon and Bonini (1958), Steindl (1965), Quandt (1966), Ijiri and Simon (1977) and more recently Stanley et al.”
SME Policy, Financial Structure and Firm Growth: Evidence From Japan (2006, methodology): “19 Following some previous studies (e.g., Evans, 1987a, b; Heshmati, 2001), we also estimated the regression models that include the quadratic terms of firm size.”
Microlending in emerging economies: Building a new line of inquiry from the ground up (2011, background): “The literature in entrepreneurship uses non-family employment as one of the first indicators of business growth, and an intermediate measure of a business performance (Brush and VanderWerf, 1992; Heshmati, 2001).”