Does (average) size matter? Court enforcement, business demography and firm growth

Does Firm Size Matter for Growth and Poverty Alleviation?

(Small) Business Activity and State Economic Growth: Does Size Matter?

(Small) Business Activity and State Economic Growth: Does Size Matter? Donald Bruce a; John A. Deskins b; Brian C. Hill c; Jonathan C. Rork d a Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA b Department of Economics and Finance, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA c Department of Economics and Finance, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, USA d Departme...

Determinants of New Firm Formation: Does Location Matter?

The link between location features and the propensity to start a new firm is a subject that did not get much attention in Iran until recently. This paper is the first attempt on this proposition and is concerned with deliberating the effect of demographical and industrial characteristics of location on start-up rates in Iranian manufacturing industries. To fulfill this aim, regional panel data ...

The size variance relationship of business firm growth rates.

The relationship between the size and the variance of firm growth rates is known to follow an approximate power-law behavior sigma(S) approximately S(-beta(S)) where S is the firm size and beta(S) approximately 0.2 is an exponent that weakly depends on S. Here, we show how a model of proportional growth, which treats firms as classes composed of various numbers of units of variable size, can ex...

The Influence of Green External Integration on Firm Performance: Does Firm Size Matter?

Although the importance of green external integration has been widely recognized, our understanding of how firm size influences its link with firm performance is still limited. This study develops a conceptual framework in which firm size is proposed to moderate the relationships between green external integration, the time-to-market of environmentally friendly products and firm performance. We...