Entrepreneurial team and performance in Lombard SMEs.An empirical study

Marco Talaia and Serena Mascherpa
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Serena Mascherpa: Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Italy

Economics and Quantitative Methods from Department of Economics, University of Insubria

Abstract: Identifying which factors affect firms’ performance is a critical issue. Within International Entrepreneurship stream of search, most of the extant studies have focused on the individual entrepreneur, with entrepreneurial team (ET) neglected in the literature. Our paper addresses the influence of ET over the behavior and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We argued that the entrepreneurial team is decisive in SMEs, inasmuch as the lack of resources push them to rely more on their entrepreneurial team. Based on a survey of 301 small and medium-sized enterprises of Lombardy, we demonstrated that entrepreneurial team demographics have a crucial role in the determination of performance

Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2011-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent and nep-sbm
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