This paper provides an evaluative overview of the new venture survival literature. Since
Stinchcombe's primary attempt to explain the mortality rates of new ventures, different …

This review article sheds a light on the complex and hitherto under-researched relationship
between geography and entrepreneurship. This relationship is considered to be …

The objective of this article is to discover the relationships between selected organizational
predictors and entrepreneurial success through examination of a sample of 294 companies …

We study localization, urbanization and Jacobs' externality effects on plant survival in
Sweden (1970–2004). We focus on two questions:(i) do agglomeration externalities change …

The aim of this study is to provide new insights into French small and medium-sized
enterprises (SME) failure prediction using a unique database of French SMEs over the 2012 …

It is widely known that both geography and institutions determine the location of an
investment. However, little is known about the impact of these factors on entrepreneurs' …

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? In Germany, women exhibit both a lower entry rate
into and higher exit rate from self-employment. To explain this gender gap, this study …

This paper analyzes the role of various types of agglomeration externalities on the survival
rate of entrepreneurial firms. In particular, we trace the population cohort of newly …

We study empirically the effects of five different dimensions of agglomeration–specialization,
diversity, related variety, unrelated variety, and city size–on the survival chances of new …

In this paper, we use the 1995 Kobe earthquake as a natural experiment to examine the
impact of a large exogenous physical shock on local economic activity. For the first time we …