Arbeitspapier
Business Owners, Employees and Firm Performance
The novel Finnish Longitudinal OWNer-Employer-Employee (FLOWN) database was used to analyze how the characteristics of owners and employees relate to firm performance as determined by labor productivity, survival and employment growth. Focusing on the role of the owner’s formal education and previous experience as an employee, the results show that previous experience in a high-productivity firm strongly predicts high productivity and probability of survival for the entrepreneur’s new firm. This can be interpreted as evidence of knowledge spillover through labor mobility. Strikingly, firms established in times of intensive excess job reallocation were found to exhibit superior productivity performance in the later phases of their life cycles.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ETLA Working Papers ; No. 42
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
Entrepreneurship
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Thema
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Entrepreneurship
ownership
firm performance
human capital
diffusion of knowledge
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Maliranta, Mika
Nurmi, Satu
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
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Helsinki
- (wann)
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Maliranta, Mika
- Nurmi, Satu
- The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Entstanden
- 2016