Small Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Africa and Latin America

By C. Liedholm. 2002

315 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. H. Haugh
2. B. Obeng
3. Dirk De Clercq
4. P. Robson
5. J. Hessels
6. T. Tambunan
7. Dan Li
8. Siri Terjesen

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Dirk De Clercq
2. H. Haugh
3. J. Hessels
4. B. Obeng
5. Siri Terjesen
6. P. Robson
7. D. Storey
8. Dan Li

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Dirk De Clercq
2. J. Hessels
3. T. Tambunan
4. H. Haugh
5. Dan Li
6. B. Obeng
7. Siri Terjesen
8. D. Storey

Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Knowledge in Business Start-up Activity (2006, background): “Similarly, it has been suggested that knowledge-related factors also enhance new venture performance (Boone and Van Witteloostuijn, 1996; Brüderl and Preisendörfer, 1998; Cooke and Wills, 1999; Cooper et al., 1994; Liedholm, 2002; Pennings et al., 1998; Van Praag and Cramer, 2001).”
• Comparative International Entrepreneurship (2016, background): “…Barney (2007) S. M. Lee & Peterson (2000) S. S. Lee & Osteryoung (2001) S. S. Lee & Osteryoung (2004) Leleux & Surlemont (2003) Levie & Autio (2008) Liedholm (2002) D. Lim, Morse, Mitchell, & Seawright (2010) Linan & Chen (2009) Lituchy & Reavley (2004) Liuhto (1996) Loane (2006) Loane & Bell…”
• Impact of information technology innovation on firm performance in Kenya (2019, background): “Research conducted by Liedholm (2002) involving about 28,000 SMEs in Africa and Latin America shows a sluggish growth rate among SMEs at the startup stage.”
• Optimism and chance: The elephants in the entrepreneurship room (2011, background): “Liedholm (2002) finds that only 26 percent of new firms ever increase their employment, so their initial size is their maximum size.”
• Bank Financing for SMEs – Lessons from the Literature (2013, unknown): “Klapper and Richmond (2013) find for registered firms in Cote d’Ivoire that the probability of survival increases monotonically with firm size, while Liedholm (2001) reports for other African countries that there is no relationship between firm size at start-up and survivor probability.”
• Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “Firm size provides one of the most consistent indicators of small firm growth (Almus, 2002; Liedholm, 2002; McPherson, 1996; Yasuda, 2005).”
• SME development, economic growth, and government intervention in a developing country: The Indonesian story (2008, background): “Liedholm (2002), for instance, investigated the determinants of survival and growth of SMEs in Africa and Latin America.”
• The Barriers to Growth in Ghana (2008, result): “However, similar studies undertaken in some countries in East Africa on urban micro and small businesses revealed evidence to the contrary (Liedholm, 2002).”
• Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, unknown): “…that another 10 to 40 percent simply work on the street.16 Many of these micro- and small firms are located in rural areas and absorb some labor slack during the low agriculture season, which is consistent with the findings of earlier studies, including Mead and Liedholm (1998) and Liedholm (2002).”
• Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “14 By the same token, Ligthelm (2011) found that business management skills are one of the strongest predictor of survival among small informal firms in South Africa.”