Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1291-1294
Keyword(s):  
Firm Growth ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Firm Dynamics ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
New Firms ◽  
Industrial Economics ◽  
National University ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Start Ups

Markus Taussig of National University of Singapore reviews “Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: The Birth, Growth and Demise of Entrepreneurial Firms” by Frédéric Delmar and Karl Wennberg. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Investigates the entrepreneurial processes of new firms' emergence, growth, and eventual demise and exit in the modern knowledge-intensive economy. Discusses the role of entrepreneurship and new firm dynamics for economic development; the knowledge intensive sector--theoretical concerns, research design, and data; the birth of new firms--the geography connection; firm exit; de novo and spinout start-ups--the organizational connection; and firm growth. Delmar is at EMLYON Business School and the Research Institute of Industrial Economics. Wennberg is Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Index.”

scholarly journals Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-275
Author(s):  
Ufuk Akcigit ◽  
Harun Alp ◽  
Michael Peters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Firm Dynamics ◽  
Fixed Time ◽  
The United States ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Managerial Delegation

Delegating managerial tasks is essential for firm growth. Most firms in developing countries, however, do not hire outside managers but instead rely on family members. In this paper, we ask if this lack of managerial delegation can explain why firms in poor countries are small and whether it has important aggregate consequences. We construct a model of firm growth where entrepreneurs have a fixed time endowment to run their daily operations. As firms grow large, the need to hire outside managers increases. Firms’ willingness to expand therefore depends on the ease with which delegation can take place. We calibrate the model to plant-level data from the United States and India. We identify the key parameters of our theory by targeting the experimental evidence on the effect of managerial practices on firm performance from Bloom et al. (2013). We find that inefficiencies in the delegation environment account for 11 percent of the income per capita difference between the United States and India. They also contribute to the small size of Indian producers, but would cause substantially more harm for US firms. The reason is that US firms are larger on average and managerial delegation is especially valuable for large firms, thus making delegation efficiency and other factors affecting firm growth complements. (JEL D22, G32, L25, L26, O14)

Knowledge Transfer between Universities and Knowledge Intensive Business Services

2015 ◽  
pp. 320-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
João J. Ferreira ◽  
Cristina Fernandes ◽  
Mário L. Raposo
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
New Firms ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Public Research Institutions

In this chapter, the authors study the importance of regional entrepreneurship as well as the characteristics of location, and show that the basis for creation of new firms is knowledge, thus giving emphasis to broadcasters (spillovers) of knowledge coming from universities and other R&D institutions. Thus, the knowledge generated arises from the collaboration between companies and public research institutions (Audretsch & Lehmann, 2005). Here, the authors specifically address the KIBS to the extent that they are creators, users, and transmitters of intensive knowledge. This shows the importance of the study of cooperation between universities and firms, especially KIBS. In this sense, the empirical results demonstrate that cooperation between KIBS and universities occurs independent of their location (rural or urban) and typology (professional or technological). The authors furthermore find that rural KIBS have increased their levels of graduate employment faster than their urban KIBS peers.

scholarly journals The early growth of start-ups: innovation matters. Evidence from Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Fiorentino ◽  
Sergio Longobardi ◽  
Alessandro Scaletti
Keyword(s):  
Propensity Score ◽  
Propensity Score Matching ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Start Ups

PurposeDespite the relevance of innovation in entrepreneurship literature, empirical research on the innovation-performance relationship in start-ups is underdeveloped and shows controversial results. To bridge this gap, the aim of this paper is to investigate the role of innovativeness on new venture performance in the early stage of the life cycle.Design/methodology/approachRegression modelling and propensity score matching are used to reveal systematic differences in growth between innovative start-ups (ISUPs) and non-innovative start-ups. We use an ad hoc dataset obtained through merging the financial database AIDA with data from administrative sources (Italian Chambers of Commerce and the Italian Ministry for Economic Development).FindingsThe results show that differences in growth can be explained by the different levels of innovativeness in new ventures. Moreover, unlike in prior studies, the innovation inputs matter more than innovation outputs. Indeed, the results support the idea that innovation policies can contribute to maximising the potential of start-ups.Practical implicationsThe findings provide suggestions for policy makers and entrepreneurs to help firms configure ex ante appropriate actions to support the growth of new ventures in the start-up stage.Originality/valueThis study is the first to use the new objective measure of start-up innovation, available from the Italian LD 221 register. Second, different types of innovation are investigated as antecedents of firm growth. Third, we employ propensity score matching, which favours revealing systematic differences in growth between ISUPs and non-innovative start-ups. Fourth, the results of our study are the first to offer evidence on the effectiveness of the new Italian sustaining ISUPs policy.

Hacking and Rehearsing: Experiments in Creative Tinkering

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-77
Author(s):  
Miguel Escobar Varela
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
National University ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Performance Research

Hacking – improving software through a process of trial and error – is a mode of rehearsal. Such is the claim made by Miguel Escobar Varela in this article, which he furthers by exploring the similarities between the ways theatre makers and software programmers speak about their crafts. Understanding software programming as an essentially creative process should be of interest for theatre scholars, who are constantly searching for modes of academic discourse that are sensitive to the specificity of theatre. By offering examples from interface design for the study of Javanese theatre, Escobar argues that creating software, through an iterative process of trial and error, can become part of the methodological palette of theatre scholars. Miguel Escobar Varela is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore, and has worked as a theatre researcher, computer programmer and translator in Mexico, the Netherlands, Indonesia, and Singapore. His articles on the intersection of digital technology and theatre studies have been published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Asian Theatre Journal, Performance Research, Contemporary Theatre Review and are forthcoming in TDR and Theatre Research International.

scholarly journals Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Ferraz ◽  
Frederico Finan ◽  
Dimitri Szerman
Keyword(s):  
Firm Growth ◽  
Firm Dynamics ◽  
Government Purchases

Human Resource Blueprints in Irish High-Tech Start-up Firms

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Mary A. Keating ◽  
Mariabrisa Olivares
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Start Ups

Focusing on Irish high-tech start-ups, this paper reports on the results of an empirical study of organization building by entrepreneurial firms, specifically in relation to human resource practices. The research findings are benchmarked with findings from SPEC, the Stanford Project of Emerging Companies (Baron and Hannan, 2002). Human resources management and entrepreneurial research have rarely been combined in the literature and there is no distinct body of work in the area of human resource management in entrepreneurial firms.

Success and Failure in New Business Start-Ups

1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Smalibone
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
New Firms ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Local Business ◽  
New Business ◽  
Start Ups

DAVID SMALIBONE IS A SENIOR LECTURER IN the school of Geography and planning at Middlsex Polytechnic, Engalnad,with urrentresearch interest in enterprise agaencies, new business and adjusttment processes in nature small frims. this paer aims to ccontribute to knowlede of the charctersitics nd problems of new firms through a lngtudiinal study of a group ofo new business helped tostart by a loca lenterpriise eagency, a unique British organisatiion which provides free or low-cost advice andsupport to young firm and which are themselves funded by laarge local business and local authorities. The characteristics of survving andfaled businesses are described, together wiith theproblems faced in the itnitial trading periodl. the role of external agencies n provding continued support aftr start upsi also discussed breifly. Apart from contributing to a more informed assesment of the recent grwth in the number of new business and self-employed, the paer outlines smeimplcation of the findings for improving the qualty of new business starts.

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