Born global and well educated: start-up survival through fuzzy set analysis

Nicola Del Sarto (), Alberto Di Minin (), Giulio Ferrigno () and Andrea Piccaluga ()
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Nicola Del Sarto: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Institute of Management
Alberto Di Minin: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Institute of Management
Giulio Ferrigno: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Institute of Management
Andrea Piccaluga: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Institute of Management

Small Business Economics, 2021, vol. 56, issue 4, No 8, 1405-1423

Abstract: Abstract Although start-ups’ survival has been widely investigated, only few studies have focussed on the impact of the combined effect of firms’ internal resources. Drawing upon the resource-based view (RBV), we selected four internal resources influencing start-ups’ survival (R&D activity, advertising activity, export activity, and human capital) and we applied the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine which interactions among the said internal resources affect start-ups’ survival. We used a unique dataset of 38 start-ups accelerated in Italy in 2013. Our findings suggest that, among the various combinations of internal resources considered, the interaction between export activity and human capital is the only one that affects start-ups’ survival. On one hand, the interaction between these two resources amplifies the effect of the learning by exporting on start-ups’ survival. On the other hand, export activity provides the knowledge necessary to exploit the potential of qualified human capital.

Keywords: fsQCA; Resource-based view of the firm; Start-ups; Firm survival; And Italy; L21; L26; M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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