A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in
recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into …

Despite a growing body of research on firm survival, little is known about the factors
impacting upon survival rates at a micro-spatial level. This study, therefore, analyses firm …

We find new empirical regularities in the business cycle in a cross-country panel of 22
OECD countries for the period 1972 to 2007; entrepreneurship Granger-causes the cycles of …

Do crisis times hamper or foster entrepreneurship? We analyze the relative growth
performance of small and young firms within the German Mittelstand during the 2009 crisis …

A proposed explanation for why business creation is often found to increase in recessions is
that there are two components to entrepreneurship–“opportunity” and “necessity”–the latter …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out the extent to which governments of the Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) countries play a moderating role in the relationship between …

This paper presents a novel longitudinal study of entrepreneurial attitudes and activity. The
study uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) and builds on a previous …

This paper analyses regional resilience and local economic growth patterns in Italy over the
past four decades. Place-specific transient and permanent effects of aggregate employment …

Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic
upswings. I show that this is mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a …

Using data on private firms in the EU-15 area over the period 2004–2011, we investigate the
determinants of firm profitability. We extend existing models by considering possible …