Networks and Local Environmental Characteristics in the Survival of New Firms

By Hannu Littunen. 2000

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Rural Entrepreneurship in Europe: A Research Framework and Agenda (2004, background): “In contrast, formal networks are composed of business entrepreneurs, banks, accountants, creditors, legal representatives and trade associations ( Littunen, 2000a”
Modeling the relationship between networking and firm performance (2007, background): “Littunen (2000) suggested that entrepreneurial networks could be categorized as either formal (for example: external accountants) or informal (for example: family and friends).”
Entrepreneurs’ networks and the success of start-ups (2004, background): “Littunen (2000) investigates 129 start-ups from Finland of which 110 were continuing firms and 18 were closed firms.”
Born to be alive? The survival of innovative and non-innovative French micro-start-ups (2014, background): “Various types of networks can be mobilized at different times of the enterprise existence (Casson & Giusta, 2007), but these mobilizations have a greater positive impact in the initial phase of the start-ups (Littunen, 2000).”
Types of innovation, sources of information and performance in entrepreneurial SMEs (2010, background): “…for the overall performance of firms in terms of survival, growth, and innovativeness (Håkansson, 1989; Utterback, 1994; Gemünden et al., 1996; Littunen, 2000; Littunen and Virtanen, 2009), although the establishment of network relations should not be seen as an automatic success recipe…”
The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates (2004, background): “Furthermore, areas, which already have relatively intense development of service businesses, will have higher levels of new service firm formations, resulting in large part from spillovers of relevant specialized knowledge (Littunen [21]).”
Networks in Entrepreneurship: The Case of High-technology Firms (2001, background): “, 2000: 369) and for family start-ups the internal network appears to be more important than the external network (Littunen, 2000).”
The High Growth in New Metal-Based Manufacturing and Business Service Firms in Finland (2003, background): “teams bring to the firm the skills needed for the strategy development process (Cachon, 1990; Vesper, 1990; Vyakarnam et al., 1997; Ensley et al., 1998; Lechler and Gemuenden, 1999; Littunen, 2000 ).”
The interplay of human and social capital in shaping entrepreneurial performance: the case of Vietnam (2012, unknown): “Littunen (2000) investigates the effect of cooperation among 129 startups in Finland on their survival beyond the critical operational phase (4–6 years) as the criterion for success.”
Determinants of innovativeness in SMEs: disentangling core innovation and technology adoption capabilities (2017, background): “8 the entrepreneur’s resources can lead to the closure of the firm (Littunen, 2000).”