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by Robert J. Strom April 2011

Robert J. Strom Interest in the study of entrepreneurship has flourished among scholars in recent years. This research has brought to light, among...

• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Business enterprises
• Economic development

Working Paper

The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting...

• Business enterprises
• Choice
• Mathematical models

Working Paper

Tanzania’s industrial sector has evolved through various stages since independence in 1961, from nascent and undiversified to state-led import substitution industrialization, and subsequently to de-industrialization under the structural adjustment...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• International trade

Working Paper

This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases from each of Mozambique’s 11 provinces. The new dataset is assessed by...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• Manufacturing industries

Journal Article

Based on unique panel data consisting of both formal and informal firms, this paper uses a matched double difference approach to examine the relationship between legal status and firm level outcomes in micro, small and medium manufacturing...

• Business enterprises
• Entrepreneurship
• Informal sector

Policy Brief

How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses these...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• Entrepreneurship

Working Paper

• Business enterprises
• Competition
• Globalization

Working Paper

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection...

• Business enterprises
• Commerce
• Organizational behavior

Working Paper

In this paper, we aim to analyse the learning by exporting hypothesis in the Mozambican context. Due to the presence of the born-global phenomenon among exporters, we address the endogeneity introduced by self-selection by combining a generalized BO...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• Microeconomics

Journal Article

A broad definition of innovation input is used, in which R&D is one of several sources of innovation. A quantitative innovation output measure is used in the analysis, which is based on a large representative sample of firms, including small firms...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• Economic growth

Journal Article

The availability of the new internationally harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) The determinants of innovation behavior at firm level...

• Business enterprises
• Manufacturing
• Technological innovations

Working Paper

This paper investigates the relationship between taxation and firm performance in developing countries. Taking firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and tax data from the Government Revenue Dataset (ICTD/UNU-WIDER), our...

• Business enterprises
• Economic growth
• Infrastructure (Economics)

Research Brief

• Business enterprises
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Industrial policy

Working Paper

Vietnam’s industrial development since doi moi is a success, but only a partial one. This paper provides a political economy account of Vietnam’s industrial growth since 1986. It shows that the key determinant of Vietnam’s industrial growth lies in...

• Business enterprises
• Corporate law
• Economic growth