An entrepreneur performance index

Harold Fried () and Loren Tauer

Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2015, vol. 44, issue 1, 69-77

Abstract: A measure of entrepreneur performance is important to identify current and future successful ventures, to further our understanding of the entrepreneurial process and to guide public policies to improve the success rate of start-ups. We propose a single value index of entrepreneur performance that ranges from one to zero, that is predicated on multiple inputs, and that mitigates the impact of outliers. The index is calculated for firms from the Kauffman Foundation Firm Survey for years 2004 through 2009. The average value of the index increases over time as firms either improve their performance or exit the data set due to failure. Survival analysis shows that the index serves as a leading indicator of success, although many additional factors are important. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Entrepreneur performance; Performance index; Order-m; Survival analysis; C43; L26; M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11123-015-0436-0

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