Entrepreneurship and the process of firms' entry, survival and growth

Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco

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“…in terms of turnover, profit, number of employees (Santarelli and Vivarelli, 2007), and, the entrepreneur's satisfaction and expectations (Cooper and Artz, 1995).…”

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Strangers on the Move: Ethnic Entrepreneurs as Urban Change Actors

Kourtit¹,

Nijkamp²

2012

European Review

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Abstract:This paper aims to examine the critical conditions for success and failure for the new generation of ethnic entrepreneurs in the creative industries in modern Dutch urban areas, in terms of their entrepreneurial behaviour with a particular focus on their personal and business characteristics and their motivation and driving forces, which all determine their entrepreneurship and their business performance. An empirical application is presented, in which the results from an in-depth interview study of Moroccan entrepreneurs are discussed. The findings of our study show that, in general, these entrepreneurs are more open and are looking for new opportunities beyond the traditional markets using break-out strategies. This research study can help to explain how to achieve a better understanding of the important factors which influence entrepreneurial behaviour and activity, the business entry decision, and the creation process, and of the conditions for success and other factors that can have an effect on the performance of ethnic entrepreneurs in the Netherlands, within the broader context of entrepreneurship. This will have implications for various stakeholders such as other ethnic entrepreneurs, policy makers and business investors in this dynamic and promising business environment.Keywords: ethnic entrepreneurship, urban change, strategic performance management, culture, creative industries Pn371kk 1 The Modern City as a Multicultural Melting PotCreativity, innovation and entrepreneurship are often mentioned in the current literature as critical success factors that spur economic development and growth. Lee et al. (2004) argue that entrepreneurship is often associated with creativity, and that creative and innovative regions enjoy a high level of dynamic entrepreneurship, so that creativity offers a positive stimulus for new firm formation in an open and flexible economy.The development of today's business environment, as well as of the modern global economy, has in recent years brought cultural, creative and innovative activities into a new focus, viz. the 'New Economy'. It is often argued that the emergence of the 'new paradigm' of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship (Matheson, 2006) is mainly due to the perceived international success of the creative sector 1 (Marlet and Poort, 2005) and to Florida's (2002Florida's ( , 2003Florida's ( , 2004) and Scott's (2000) seminal work on Creative Industries (CIs) in modern cities.Entrepreneurship and innovation are two closely connected phenomena that are responsible for a nation's, region's or city's economic growth and cultures. They lead to new forms of productivity and act as the engine of continued prosperity. Entrepreneurship is often found in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, and hence it also offers new opportunities for immigrants with a business-oriented attitude.Migration is one of the most studied subjects in the social and behavioural sciences, e.g. in demography, sociology, geography, economics. Several academics speak now...

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“…in terms of turnover, profit, number of employees (Santarelli and Vivarelli, 2007), and, the entrepreneur's satisfaction and expectations (Cooper and Artz, 1995).…”

Section: Figure 8: Structural Relations Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strangers on the Move: Ethnic Entrepreneurs as Urban Change Actors

Kourtit¹,

Nijkamp²

2012

European Review

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“…In recent years, thanks to the increased availability and diffusion of large enterprise datasets, there has been a surge of interest in the measurement of productivity growth and the study of its determinants at the firm level (Caves, 1998;Foster et al, 1998;Bartelsman and Doms, 2000;Lotti, 2007;Santarelli and Vivarelli, 2007).…”

Section: The Literature On Innovation and Firm-level Productivity Growthmentioning

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“…More specifically, we explore the idea that the sources and mechanisms of productivity growth may be distinct in different types of sectoral market structure and industrial dynamics conditions (Foster et al, 1998;Santarelli and Vivarelli, 2007). In a Schumpeter Mark II regime, the oligopolistic and concentrated nature of the market may make large incumbent innovators the dominant carriers of productivity growth.…”

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Technological regimes, Schumpeterian patterns of innovation and firm-level productivity growth

Castellacci

Zheng

2010

Industrial and Corporate Change

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The paper investigates the relationships between technological regimes and firm-level productivity performance, and it explores how such a relationship differs in different Schumpeterian patterns of innovation. The analysis makes use of a rich dataset containing data on innovation and other economic characteristics of a large representative sample of Norwegian firms in manufacturing and service industries for the period 1998-2004. First, we decompose TFP growth into technical progress and efficiency changes by means of data envelopment analysis. We then estimate an empirical model that relates these two productivity components to the characteristics of technological regimes and a set of other firm-specific factors. The results indicate that: (1) TFP growth has mainly been achieved through technical progress, while technical efficiency has on average decreased; (2) the characteristics of technological regimes are important determinants of firm-level productivity growth, but their impacts on technical progress are different from the effects on efficiency change; (3) the estimated model works differently in the two Schumpeterian regimes. Technical progress has been more dynamic in Schumpeter Mark II industries, while efficiency change has been more important in Schumpeter Mark I markets.

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“…There are excellent surveys on the recent literature (e.g. Santarelli and Vivarelli, 2007;Caves, 1998) covering a wider range of studies on firm formation, growth and survival.…”

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Private sector employment growth, 1998-2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces

Bryson

Nurmi²

2010

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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Using nationally representative panel data for British private sector workplaces this paper points to the importance of distinguishing between workplace and firm size when analysing employment growth, and finds that the factors associated with growth differ markedly between single independent establishments and those belonging to multi-site firms. Results also differ according to whether one adjusts for sample selection arising from workplace survival, and according to whether one distinguishes between growth per se and internal, organic employment growth. We find evidence at the plant level that is consistent with creative job destruction.

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Entrepreneurship and the process of firms' entry, survival and growth

Cited by 389 publications

References 211 publications

Strangers on the Move: Ethnic Entrepreneurs as Urban Change Actors

Strangers on the Move: Ethnic Entrepreneurs as Urban Change Actors

Technological regimes, Schumpeterian patterns of innovation and firm-level productivity growth

Private sector employment growth, 1998-2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces

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