Process innovation in small businesses: the self-employed as entrepreneurs

Maria Plotnikova (), Isidoro Romero and Juan A. Martínez-Román
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Maria Plotnikova: Aberystwyth University
Juan A. Martínez-Román: Universidad de Sevilla

Small Business Economics, 2016, vol. 47, issue 4, No 7, 939-954

Abstract: Abstract Innovation is one of the key attributes that sets the entrepreneurs apart from the rest of self-employed people. This paper attempts to distinguish between these two categories by means of exploring the determinants of process innovation in small businesses using a survey of self-employed workers in Andalusia, Spain. The theoretical framework adopted distinguishes between three types of factors affecting the innovative activities: (1) personal characteristics of the self-employed, (2) business characteristics and (3) the characteristics of the external environment. A Heckman-type model of the extent of process innovation that accounts for sample selection bias is estimated.

Keywords: Small business; Innovation; Process innovation; Entrepreneurship; Self-employment; O32; O33; M21; L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9743-8

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