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New Business Creation

An International Overview

  • State-of-the-art summary of eight national longitudinal projects on business start-ups, all based on a common research protocol, conducted by local experts
  • First effort to compare the basic features of new business creation across a wide range of countries, including China, the United States, Australia, and Sweden
  • Covers data on all aspects of firms creation, from idea generation to business operation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship (ISEN, volume 27)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction

    • Paul D. Reynolds, Richard T. Curtin
    Pages 1-25
  3. The Canadian Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics

    • Monica Diochon, Yvon Gasse, Teresa Menzies
    Pages 53-93
  4. German Panel of Nascent Entrepreneurs

    • Udo Brixy, Rolf Sternberg
    Pages 123-141
  5. Latvia: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics Overview

    • Vyacheslav Dombrovsky, Anders Paalzow, Olga Rastrigina
    Pages 143-174
  6. New Business Creation in the Netherlands

    • Jolanda Hessels, Marco van Gelderen
    Pages 175-193
  7. Business Start-up Processes in Norway

    • Gry Agnete Alsos, Lars Kolvereid
    Pages 195-222
  8. United States: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics I, II Overview

    • Paul D. Reynolds, Richard T. Curtin
    Pages 255-294
  9. Overview and Commentary

    • Paul D. Reynolds, Richard T. Curtin
    Pages 295-334
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 335-349

About this book

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 emergence of a business idea and organization of a start-up team through the birth of an operational business. The U.S. projects (the first and second Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, known as PSED I and II) have counterparts in a number of other countries: Australia, Canada, China, Latvia, Netherlands (two projects), Norway, and Sweden. These eleven projects in nine countries, implemented over the past decade, are at different stages of development and have been utilized for a wide range of assessments of entrepreneurial and business creation phenomena. This volume presents the state of the art of these international research projects, providing the first in-depth comparison of the firm creation data across a wide range of national contexts. The work will be of great interest to the research community, particularly those developing such projects in their own countries, as well as policy makers and scholars interested in the effect of national context on the business creation process.

Editors and Affiliations

  • George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

    Paul D. Reynolds

  • Survery Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Richard T. Curtin

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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