Interest in the field of entrepreneurship has significantly increased among academics,
practitioners and government officials in the past decade both in the USA and in Europe …

In two recent studies (Audretsch, Klomp, Santarelli and Thurik, 2004 and Piergovanni,
Santarelli, Klomp and Thurik, 2003) we tried to test the validity of Gibrat's Law, ie, growth …

Los países emergentes en los últimos años están obteniendo tasas de crecimiento muy
superiores a la de los países desarrollados, y ocupan los primeros puestos a nivel mundial …

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has become an important and extensively researched topic
in the literature. Empirical results suggest that EO may influence firm performance. However …

This study explores heterogeneity in how firms have achieved high growth. Using the
population of all firms in Sweden with more than 20 employees in existence in 1996 (N …

It once took two decades to replace one-third of the Fortune 500; now a subset of new firms
are challenging and displacing this elite group at a breathtaking rate, while armies of …

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link
between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover …

Research into firm growth has been accumulating at a terrific pace, and Alex Coad s survey
of this multifaceted field provides a detailed, comprehensive overview of the latest …

A LTHOUGH RESEARCH on the turn-over of business units has a long tradition, primary
data on the full populations of business units (firms, establishments) present in nations' …

We present an empirical analysis of the determinants of growth for a sample of Italian small
and medium sized firms. We show that, when investigating a sample which includes firms …