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How the Entrepreneurial Top Management Team Setup Influences Firm Performance and the Ability to Raise Capital: A Literature Review

Maschke, Konstantin; zu Knyphausen-Aufseß, Dodo - In: BuR - Business Research 5 (2012) 1, pp. 83-123

This paper reviews research findings on entrepreneurial top management teams within the last 20 years. It concentrates on team-based management factors and their influence on a new venture's growth and ability to raise capital. This paper integrates recent findings and provides an overview of...

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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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The role of R&D in new firm growth

Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - 2009

Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that...

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Screening and advising by a venture capitalist with a time constraint

Dietz, Martin D. - 2003

This paper proposes an intertemporal model of venture capital investment with screening and advising where the venture capitalist's time endowment is the scarce input factor. Screening improves the selection of firms receiving finance, advising allows firms to develop a marketable product, both...

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Nascent Entrepreneurs

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and which ones see their vision through to eventual start-up.

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The Fragile Success of Team Start-ups

Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - 2005

This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...

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The effect of grant receipt on start-up size: Evidence from plant level data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - 2010

In this paper we use plant level data on the start-up size of new plant entries and detailed information on the grants received by such plants in order to investigate whether grant receipt encourages plants to start-up with more employment than without support. The data relate to manufacturing...

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Initial Capital Constraints hinder Entrepreneurial Venture Performance

van Praag, Mirjam; de Wit, Gerrit; Bosma, Niels - 2003

performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly …-up phase of business have quite a substantial negative influence on performance as measured by the survival probability of the …

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How long do external capital constraints matter? A study based on Swiss data for the start-up cohort 1996 - 97

Stucki, Tobias - 2009

Start-ups mostly have only limited internal financing. Post-entry performance should thus strongly depend on the … availability of new external capital. In this study we analyze the impact of financial constraints on the performance of Swiss … whether the effect of the availability of external capital on firm performance changes with increasing age of the firms. To …

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Growth of new firms: Which factors influence post-entry performance? : An empirical analysis based on Swiss firm data

Marmet, David - 2004

The aim of this study is to shed light on the factors which determine the post-entry performance of new firms. It is …-entry performance, which we derive from existing theoretical concepts based on industrial economic approaches, learning models and …-entry performance are changes in demand, innovation behaviour, human capital, self-financing, seed capital, consultancy and support …

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