Relevance of the Mann Whitney Wilcoxon test in the survival analysis of newly established companies in Tunisia (Case of the sfax region)

Sahar Ayadi () and Sonia Zouari Ghorbel ()
Additional contact information
Sahar Ayadi: University of Sfax Faculty of Economocs and Mangement of Sfax, UMR Quantitative economics URECA
Sonia Zouari Ghorbel: Higher institute of business administration of Sfax

Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, 2018, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: Abstract This research focuses on the factors of survival and growth of new enterprises in Tunisia. Based on previous research, we hypothesize that three factors influence the survival and growth of these firms: factors related to the entrepreneur, factors related to organizational characteristics and characteristics of the environment from start-up. We test these assumptions on a sample of 60 companies. The results show that human capital and the experience of the entrepreneur have a relatively small impact on the survival of newly created firms. Similarly, the intensity of preparation for creation by accompanying structures is not generally a key factor for survival. On the other hand, organizational characteristics (the amount of capital invested at start-up or customer structure) are strongly linked to the survival of the latter.

Keywords: Survival; Newly created companies; Growth factors; Mann-Whitney Test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1186/s40497-018-0093-7 Abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:jglont:v:8:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1186_s40497-018-0093-7

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... urship/journal/40497

DOI: 10.1186/s40497-018-0093-7

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research is currently edited by Nezameddin Faghih

More articles in Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research from Springer, UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().