New Business Creation An International Overview
Understanding the origins of new businesses—the firm creation process—has been dramatically affected by the development of longitudinal studies of business start-ups. Several projects have been implemented to track the development of new firms, from the e
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International Studies In Entrepreneurship Series Editors: Zoltan J. Acs Geroge Manson University Fairfox, VA, USA David B. Audretsch Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA
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Paul D. Reynolds Richard T. Curtin ●
Editors
New Business Creation An International Overview
Editors Paul D. Reynolds School of Public Policy George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA [email protected]
Richard T. Curtin Survey Research Center University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-7535-5 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7536-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7536-2 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938796 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedicated to our wives, Eileen Curtin and Anne-Marie Reynolds, in recognition of their patience and support.
Preface
An Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop in August 2009 provided an overview of eight longitudinal panel studies of business creation. At an informal meeting of the various presenters, it was suggested that one way to facilitate comparisons of the various projects and assist other researchers not familiar with the exciting challenges of collecting and analyzing panel data was to provide a collective progress report. Each national team agreed to provide an overview of their project and its status as of the end of 2009. This book is the product of that meeting and the subsequent efforts of the various national teams. Ironically, this volume will go to press just before the 2010 Academy of Management meetings, where the workshop of 2009 will be replicated with status reports from nine national projects. The editors very much appreciate the effort and time the national teams gave to make this book possible. The development, funding, and implementation of longitudinal studies of business creation is relatively recent, the first projects were implemented in the early 1990s. This volume represents a status report on 11 projects in nine countries. These projects form one of the more coherent and substantial research programs related to business creation and entrepreneurship. A substantial amo
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