Determinants of the Prevalance of Start-ups and High-Growth Firms

By Per Davidsson, Magnus Henrekson. 2002

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

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Institutional context and the allocation of entrepreneurial effort (2008, methodology): “Based on the literature (e.g., Autio, 2005; Birch, 1987; Davidsson & Henrekson, 2002; Storey, 1994; Westhead & Cowling, 1995), and as previously mentioned, we operationalize ‘‘high-growth entrepreneurship’’ as entrepre- neurial activity involving the potential for substantial job creation within…”
Entrepreneurship: A Weak Link in the Welfare State (2005, unknown): “…in employment after 1950 until the early 2000s took place in the public sector, i.e. no new jobs net were created in the business sector during a fifty-year period despite population growth of more than 20 percent and a rapid growth in female participation rates (Davidsson and Henrekson 2002).”
Start‐up Motivations and Growth Intentions of Minority Nascent Entrepreneurs (2010, unknown): “…of firm success (Delmar, Davidsson, and Gartner 2003; Davidsson 1991) as well as a vital precursor of national economic renewal (Davidsson and Henrekson 2002), and as such has received a great deal of attention in the entrepreneurship literature (Delmar, Davidsson, and Gartner 2003; Acs and…”
Gazelles as job creators: a survey and interpretation of the evidence (2010, unknown): “Hence, at the same time as Gazelles may be important job creators compared to other private firms, economic policy may dampen the growth of Gazelles and other private firms so that their contribution to total employment becomes modest (e.g., Davidsson and Henrekson 2002).”
National Rates of Opportunity Entrepreneurship Activity: Insights from Institutional Anomie Theory (2014, background): “Economists and some management scholars focus on the institutional drivers of entrepreneurship (e.g., Baker, Gedajlovic, & Lubatkin, 2005; Busenitz, Gómez, & Spencer, 2000; Davidsson & Henrekson, 2002; Spencer & Gómez, 2004).”
A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model (2008, background): “nancial cost on firms, affecting their profitability and growth (Baumol, 1990; Davidsson and Henrekson, 2002; Van der Horst et al., 2000).”
Gender factors and female entrepreneurship: International evidence and policy implications (2010, background): “1997), Greece (Droucopoulos and Thomadakis 1993), Italy (Santarelli and Piergiovanni 1995), Sweden (Davidsson et al. 1994; Davidsson and Henrekson 2002), and the UK (Keeble and Walker 1994).”
The cost of growth: small firms and the pricing of bank loans (2015, unknown): “Much of the extant academic research has been concerned with the characteristics of growing firms (Barringer et al. 2005; Baum et al. 2001) or with the (often institutional) determinants of growth (Davidsson and Henrekson 2002; Barkham et al. 2012).”
Skill and value perceptions: how do they affect entrepreneurial intentions? (2008, background): “…of environmental factors that play a role in entrepreneurship, such as legal, institutional and socioeconomic conditions, entrepreneurial and business skills, financial or non financial assistance, and other elements which depend on the country (Gnyawali and Fogel 1994; Davidsson and Henkson 2002).”
Are high-growth firms one-hit wonders? Evidence from Sweden (2015, background): “Empirical studies (Birch and Medoff, 1994; Brüderl and Preisendörfer, 2000; Davidsson and Henrekson, 2002; Delmar et al, 2003; Littunen and Tohmo, 2003; Halabisky et al, 2006; Acs and Mueller, 2008; Acs, 2011) have shown that most new jobs originate from a small number of high-growth We would like…”