Growth of firms in developing countries, evidence from Cote d'Ivoire

By L. Sleuwaegen, Micheline Goedhuys. 2002

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

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, positive): “By the same token, a non-transparent regulatory environment with regard to labor market rules, taxation, red tape procedures, property rights and bankruptcy laws, is particularly harmful to firms’ growth in DCs and may be fatal for young entrepreneurial activities (see Goedhuys and Sleuwaegen 1999; ”
How Important Are Financing Constraints? The Role of Finance in the Business Environment (2008, background): “For instance Mauro (1995), Wei (1997) and Friedman et al.”
High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach (2010, background): “Finally, the growth of firms in Africa is particularly constr ined by factors related to the low level of development in input markets (Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys 2002).”
Innovation strategies, process and product innovations and growth: Firm-level evidence from Brazil (2012, background): “…to institutional barriers hampering firm development, such as poorly functioning financial markets and regulatory and institutional barriers, e.g. Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys (2002), finding financial and institutional constraints to growth in Côte d’ Ivoire, and Fisman and Svensson (2007) finding…”
Firm Size Matters: Growth and Productivity Growth in African Manufacturing (2005, background): “Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys (2002) cite a large number of sources from both developed and developing countries conﬁrming that larger and older ﬁrms 9 The ratio is very stable over the three survey years for virtually all ﬁrms.”
Small and medium-size enterprises: Access to finance as a growth constraint (2006, background): “Skeptics question the efficacy of this policy and point to empirical evidence either in favor of large firms or of a size-blind policy approach (see Biggs, 2002 for an overview).”
What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa? (2005, positive): “In a similar vein, Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys (2002) report that the proportion of firms that perceive regulations as an obstacle to growth is lower in the informal than the formal manufacturing sector in Côte d’Ivoire (the opposite is true for market conditions).”
How Well do Institutional Theories Explain Firms' Perceptions of Property Rights? (2005, neutral): “This is consistent with recent work that shows that middle-sized firms in African countries are more severely affected than small and large firms (Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys (2002)).”
Informal Entrepreneurship and Industry Conditions (2016, background): “Perhaps even more important, critical formal industry stakeholders, such as suppliers and business customers, may be wary to transact with informal entrepreneurs because, as formal entities, these industry stakeholders are mandated to keep strict accounting records (Sleuwaegen & Goedhuys, 2002).”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys’ (2002) study of firm growth in sub-Saharan countries also found a positive association between business size and employment growth.”
Scaling-Up SME Access to Financial Services in the Developing World (2010, background): “11 Tybout (2000), Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys (2002), Snodgrass and Biggs (1996)”
SMEs, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence (2005, background): “Sleuwaegen and Goedhuys (2002) show that restrained access to inputs, especially credit, results in a bi-modal firm size distribution in Côte d'Ivoire – the " missing middle " – with small firms growing less and large firms growing faster than in developed economies.”
In with the Big, Out with the Small (2014, neutral): “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 .”