Founder human capital and small firm performance: an empirical study of founder-managed natural food stores

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  • Gerry Segal
  • Dan Borgia
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The authors investigated the effect of founders’ human capital on the performance of their small firms. In our model, founder human capital had two dimensions: (1) level of education and (2) industry managerial experience. The authors hypothesized that higher levels of founder education and more years of founder industry managerial experience led to better firm performance. A survey of founder-managed natural food stores validated our hypotheses.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009