Survival of contractors with previous subcontracting experience

Dakshina De Silva, Georgia Kosmopoulou and Carlos Lamarche

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, issue 1, 7-9

Abstract: We examine the impact of the type of past experience for de novo contractors on business duration. Our results show that early involvement as a subcontractor in government procurement projects increases the chance of survival.

Keywords: Government procurement; Subcontracting; Survival (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D44 H57 L74 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.071

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