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Entrepreneurship and the process of firms' entry, survival and growth
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This survey article aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder's ex - ante features in terms of likely ex-post business performance. The main conclusion is that entry of new firms is heterogeneous with innovative entrepreneurs being found together with passive followers, over-optimist gamblers and even escapees from unemployment. Since founders are heterogeneous and may make “entry mistakes, ” policy incentives should be highly selective, favouring nascent entrepreneurs endowed with progressive motivation and promising predictors of better business performance. This would lead to the least distortion in the post-entry market selection of efficient entrepreneurs. Copyright 2007 , Oxford University Press.
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- Authors
- Santarelli, E., & Vivarelli, M.
- Venue
- Industrial and Corporate Change
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2007-05-26
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 455-488
- ISSN
- 0960-6491 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3650
- OpenAlex
- W2087526386
- Cited by
- 503
- References
- 175
- FWCI
- 50.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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