Regional Influences on the Prevalence of Family Versus Non-Family Start-Ups

Miriam Bird () and Karl Wennberg ()
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Miriam Bird: Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: Stocholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, 11383 Stockholm, Sweden

No 212, Ratio Working Papers from The Ratio Institute

Abstract: We integrate insights from family business and organizational ecology into the entrepreneurship field by constructing a theoretical framework that explains how the regional context impacts family and non-family start-ups in differing ways. Regional count data models based on a rich longitudinal dataset reveal that while economic factors such as population size and growth in regions are primarily associated with the number of non-family start-ups, factors related to regional embeddedness, such as pre-existing small family businesses as well as favorable community attitudes toward small businesses, are more strongly associated with the number of family start-ups. Our research provides support for the notion that ‘the regional context’ is an important yet under-theorized area for research on venture creation and family business.

Keywords: Family Business; Start-up; Population Ecology; Regional Science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L21 M13 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2013-08-19
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