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Labor force diversity and new firm formation
Many countries have experienced increases in the diversity of their labor forces. Our paper examines one such country—Sweden—and relates the...
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Geographical accessibility to bank branches and its relationship to new firm formation in Sweden via multiscale geographically weighted regression
The geographical accessibility to banks and its relationship with new firm formation can vary across space due to spatial contexts. With increasing...
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Firm cooperation policies: the impact of territorial spillovers
Research on program evaluation, and in particular on firm cooperation policies, has been scant on the impact of space-specific characteristics on...
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‘Dams and flows’: boundary formation and dislocation in the financialised firm
Mainstream economic theories of the firm argue that the boundary between firm and market is determined by efficiency-enhancing logics which optimise...
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The Non-cooperative Game and Cooperative Game Between Independent Innovation Firm and Imitative Innovation Firm
We divide innovative firms into independent innovation firm and imitative innovation firm. In this paper, we study the game between independent and...
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Managerial Time Orientation, Corporate Resource Allocation, and Firm Resilience
Facing the intricate external environment, comprehensively improving the risk-resistant ability of Chinese enterprises and creating resilient...
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Labor Market Flexibility and General and Firm-specific Skills
The current economy is subject to great uncertainty. Smooth labor reallocations are important. This calls for labor market policies that increase...
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Bribery, regulation and firm performance: evidence from a threshold model
Firm-level bribery and regulation are two of the many determinants of firm performance. However, most of the existing studies examine the direct and...
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Ownership, Governance, Management and Firm Performance: Evidence from Italian Firms
We explore the role of ownership, governance and management characteristics as potential drivers of the performance gaps between firms located in the...
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Uncertainty and the nature of the firm: From Frank Knight and Ronald Coase to an evolutionary approach
In his article ‘ The Nature of the Firm’ Coase Economica 4:386-405, (
1937 ), Ronald Coase enquired why organisations such as firms exist in a... -
The Over-Concentration of Innovation and Firm-Specific Knowledge in the Artificial Intelligence Industry
The development of the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has been impressive in virtually all economic sectors in recent years. Our study...
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The extent of the firm
The firm boundaries question—why are some economic activities carried out through market contracts and others through the internal organization—tends...
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Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China
Biased technological change is a crucial factor contributing to the growth of total factor productivity (TFP). In this paper, we jointly estimate the...
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Network Heterogeneity and Firm Performance: the Role of Network Capability
Innovation networks refer to a set of firms and other institutions that work together for a common goal, which is to develop innovation. The...
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Product Innovation and Value Network Formation of Internet Firms Based on Grounded Theory: Experience of the Largest Firm in China
This paper seeks to generate insights into how internet firms engage in a dynamic process of improving product innovation through collaboration...
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Impact of Formal and Informal Institutional Constraints on Innovation: Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia
This study investigates the interplay of formal and informal institutional constraints on firm innovation, using data from the World Bank Enterprise...
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The dynamics of wage dispersion between firms: the role of firm entry and exit
Although wage inequality is an important and widely studied issue, the literature is vastly silent on the relationship between firm entry and exit...
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Open innovation in Italian high-end fashion: an analysis of network tie formation by new ventures
Using a multiple case study of Italian high-end fashion, we analyze how new ventures pursue an open innovation by forming network ties to facilitate...
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Spatial analysis of new firm formation in creative industries before and during the world economic crisis
Most empirical research on the effects of the economic downturns has been a-spatial and overlooked the location choices of creative industries (CIs)....
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The effect of bank branch closures on new firm formation: the Swedish case
In this paper, the effect of local bank branch closures on new firm formation in Sweden is analysed using a panel database that captures the...
