Start-up Entry Strategies: Employer vs. Nonemployer Firms

Start - up entry strategies : Employer vs .

Casual observation points to a broad variety of internal organizations of newborn ...rms. For instance, many start-up ...rms are owned and managed by their founders who are simultaneously the employees. These belong to the category of so-called Nonemployer ...rms, according to US Bureau of Census nomenclature. The internal organization of a start-up Nonemployer, belonging to the subcategory of ...

Founder’s Human Capital, Entry Strategies and Start-Up Size

Opening Up Intellectual Property Strategy: Implications for Open Source Software Entry by Start-up Firms

W examine whether a firm’s intellectual property (IP) strategy in support of the open source software (OSS) community stimulates new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In particular, we analyze the impact of strategic decisions taken by IBM around the mid-2000s, such as its announcement that it will not assert its patents against the OSS community and its creation of a patent commons...

Managing inventory and production capacity in start-up firms

Successful start-up firms make a valuable contribution to economic growth and development. Models that provide insight into the management of start-up firms are therefore important. We consider the problem of managing inventory and production capacity in a start-up manufacturing firm and argue that for such firms the objective of maximising the probability of the firm surviving is more appropri...

Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with female first hires are more successful and stay longer in...