nep-ent New Economics Papers
on Entrepreneurship
Issue of 2005‒06‒19
nine papers chosen by
Marcus Dejardin
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
  1. Where in Entrepreneurship Research Heading? By Scott Shane
  2. The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don't By Simon C Parker
  3. Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment - An Empiri cal Investigation By Max Keilbach; Dirk Engel
  4. Two Theories of Entrepreneurship: Alternative Assumptions and the Study of Entrepreneurial Action By Sharon A. Alvarez
  5. Entrepreneurship and Innovation By Zoltan J. Acs; David B. Audretsch
  6. A primer on governance and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises By Enrique Yacuzzi
  7. Explaining the Distribution of Firms Growth Rates By Giulio Bottazzi; Angelo Secchi
  8. Evolutionary analysis of the firm and internal selection By Nadia Jacoby
  9. Exploration and exploitation strategies. What kind of analytical models ? By Nadia Jacoby
  1. By: Scott Shane
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:esi:egpdis:2005-20&r=ent
  2. By: Simon C Parker
    Abstract: This introductory, non-technical, article offers a reflective overview of what Economics adds to our understanding of entrepreneurship. It is designed primarily to showcase to young entrepreneurship scholars several interesting research questions and a toolbox of methods to answer them. First, I will illustrate the kinds of questions that can be posed and answered using Economics. Then I will present and discuss a selective list of "canonical" theoretical and empirical models that form the intellectual bedrock of the Economics of Entrepreneurship. After that, I present and discuss some well-established theoretical contributions and empirical findings that have been generated by the approach. I conclude by discussing aspects of "What we don't know" and should. This part of the article identifies several ideal future trends in research that build on and complement the foundations of entrepreneurship that are delineated in the main body of the article.
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:esi:egpdis:2005-18&r=ent
  3. By: Max Keilbach; Dirk Engel
    Abstract: The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms. Among other variables, our panel of firm data includes data on venture capital funding and patent applications. With statistical matching procedures we draw an adequate control group of non­venture funded but otherwise comparable firms. The analysis confirms other findings that venture funded firms in Germany have higher number of patent applications than those in the control group. However, they do so already before the venture capitalists engagement. After this engagement, the number of patent applications does not differ significantly from that of the control group, however the venture funded firms display significantly larger growthrates. We conclude that the higher innovation output of venture funded firms is mainly driven by the selection process made by the venture capitalist.
    Keywords: Firm Demography, Firm Start­Ups, Firm Growth, Venture Capital, Patented Inventions, Microeconometric Evaluation Methods
    JEL: L21 D21 D92 C14 C33
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:esi:egpdis:2005-22&r=ent
  4. By: Sharon A. Alvarez
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:esi:egpdis:2005-19&r=ent
  5. By: Zoltan J. Acs; David B. Audretsch
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:esi:egpdis:2005-21&r=ent
  6. By: Enrique Yacuzzi
    Abstract: This paper is a primer on corporate performance, corporate governance, and their interrelationships and measurement systems, with particular focus on Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This is the first report of a larger on going research project. In the domain of performance measurement the paper describes the trend from financial to non-financial measures, as well as a taxonomy of measures and the impact of the TQM movement on measurement practices. In the domain of governance, governance as a general concept is presented, followed by the more specific concept of corporate governance. Four theories of corporate governance are explained, along with literature findings on the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance, with reference to both works on large firms and works on SMEs.
    Keywords: Corporate governance, corporate performance, measurement, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
    JEL: G30 G34 L25 M11
    Date: 2005–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cem:doctra:293&r=ent
  7. By: Giulio Bottazzi; Angelo Secchi
    Abstract: Empirical analyses on aggregated datasets have revealed a common exponential behavior in the shape of the probability density of the corporate growth rates. We present clearcut evidence on this topic using disaggregated data. We explain the observed regularities proposing a model in which the firms’ ability of taking up new business opportunities increases with the number of opportunities already exploited. A theoretical result is presented for the limiting case in which the number of firms and opportunities go to infinity. Moreover, using simulations, we show that even in a small industry the agreement with asymptotic results is almost complete.
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ssa:lemwps:2005/16&r=ent
  8. By: Nadia Jacoby (MATISSE)
    Abstract: Evolutionary approaches of the firm devote a part of their analysis to firm behavior and to some processes acting inside the firm , however the internal workings of firms are, most of the time, not deeply analyzed. In this perspective, this paper attemps to investigate whether Ç we can drop internal selection in the evolutionary analysis of the firm È. In ordre to answer this question, we propose a micro-simulation model of internal selection where firms are engaged in production and R&D activities. They carry out two kinds of R&D and do not run any imitation process. Internal selection acts on R&D projects and we measure the impact of the selection mechanism on the firm's performances. The model generates persistent differences between firms according to their internal selection process.
    Keywords: Innovation, internal selection, market dynamics, R&D, technological performance
    JEL: C63 L11 L21 O32
    Date: 2005–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mse:wpsorb:r05042&r=ent
  9. By: Nadia Jacoby (MATISSE)
    Abstract: This paper gives some insights related to the combination of exploration and exploitation behaviors. A recurrent question for firms deals with this blend of exploration and exploitation mechanisms. Firms are engaged in new activities like research and at the same time in more routine ones like development and production. Thus, they should find a satisfying arrangement between exploitation. But in order to do that, they should better understand their working. This paper analyzes adaptive systems through exploration and exploitation behaviors of firms. In order to better understand the temporal articulation of those behaviors, we refer to a mapping representation of search processes using NK models (Kauffman, 1993).
    Keywords: Evolutionary approaches of firms, exploration and exploitation behaviors, NK models
    JEL: C63 L21
    Date: 2005–05
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mse:wpsorb:r05040&r=ent
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