The Small, the Young, and the Productive: Determinants of Manufacturing Firm Growth in Ethiopia

By A. Bigsten, Mulu Gebreeyesus. Economic development and cultural change, 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India (2012, background): “As such, our results are similar to those obtained by Bigsten and Gebreeyesus (2007) , who analyze Ethiopian census data on manufacturing firms with over ten employees.”
Determinants and Dimensions of Firm Growth (2009, unknown): “Furthermore, researchers who studied firm growth in different size groups suggest that Gibrat’s law of size independence only holds for firms above a certain size threshold, for instance a relatively large size with over 400 employees (Bigsten & Gebreeyesus, 2007).”
Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “Finally, Bigsten and Gebreeyesus (2007) ran GMM-SYS panel estimates covering census-based Ethiopian manufacturing firms over the 1996–2003 period and showed that the negative relationship between size and age, on the one hand, and firms’ employment growth, on the other, is significant and robust to…”
In with the Big, Out with the Small (2014, unknown): “For developing countries, a number of studies document that small firms grow faster than large firms ( Mead and Liedholm 1998; Gunning and Mengistae 2001; Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys 2002; Bigsten and Gebreeyesus 2007; Ayyagari, Demirguc-Kunt, and Maksimovic 2011 .”
High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach (2010, background): “Biggs and Srivastava (1996), McPherson (1996), Goedhuys and Sleuwaegen (1999), Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys (2002) and Bigsten and Gebreeyesus (2007) provide empirical evidence that younger and smaller firms have higher growth rates than larger and older companies.”
Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, unknown): “The nine countries are Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.”
SMEs in sustainable development: Their role in poverty reduction and employment generation in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, background): “There are existing studies that explain this subject (e.g. Bigsten and Gebreeyesus 2007; Goedhuys and Sleuwaegen 2009; Shiferaw and Bedi 2009).”