High-Growth Firms: What Is the Impact of Region-Specific Characteristics?

Patrícia Bogas () and Natália Barbosa ()
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Patrícia Bogas: University of Minho

Chapter Chapter 15 in Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development, 2015, pp 295-308 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter analyzes high-growth firms in Portugal and aims at assessing the impact of region-specific characteristics on the probability of the firm being high-growth. Using a sample of active firms registered in the database Quadros de Pessoal between 2002 and 2006, the result suggests that high-growth firms is not a random phenomenon and that the region-specific characteristics determine significantly the probability of the firm being high-growth. In particular, industrial diversity, services agglomeration, and diversity of employees’ qualifications in a region explain in a significant way the probability of a firm being high-growth.

Keywords: High-growth firms; Regional-specific characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12871-9_15

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