WHAT CHARACTERIZES SUCCESSFUL START-UP COHORTS?

International Studies in Entrepreneurship

Volumn 14, Issue , 2006, Pages 61-74

  Weyh, Antje ^a  

^a Regional Office Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employment Growth; Firm Survival; Hazard Rate; Spatial Autocorrelation; Technological Regime

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547560027     PISSN: 15721922     EISSN: 21975884     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28376-5_4     Document Type: Chapter

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