This paper examines empirically the link between the post-entry strategies of new entrepreneurs and the duration of the firm. We use a sample of French entrepreneurs that have set up or taken over a firm during the first six months of 1994. For firms that are still alive at least four years later we have information both on the individual pre-entry motives of the entrepreneurs and on the post e...

Innovation is usually assumed to be a crucial component of firm performance, yet the optimal strategy and progression from invention to performance remains unclear and poorly identified empirically. Likewise the idea of a fundamental tradeoff between exploration and exploitation has been extremely influential, however, the stages and causal linkages between search strategy and performance have ...

This paper seeks to explore the drivers of startups’ survival in turbulent industries, characterized by high rates of entry and exit, fragmented market shares, and a rapid pace of product innovation. Specifically, the paper aims to underscore the role played by post-entry product strategies, along with their interaction, beyond that of pre-entry conditions. Based on a sample of 270 startups tha...

Recent developments have increased the competition in the sector for higher education, thus, creating an educational market. Companies from the hardware and software industries, the media industry, and professional training institutions try to enter the market with corporate or virtual universities, with learning software, computerbased training, and other e-Learning products. Many successful u...