New Business Creation: An International Overview (International Studies in Entrepreneurship Book 27)

Understanding the origins of new businesses — the firm creation process—has been dramatically affected by the development of longitudinal studies of business start-ups. Several projects have been implemented to track the development of new firms, from the emergence of a business idea and organization of a start-up team through the birth of an operational business. The U.S. projects (the first and second Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, known as PSED I and II) have counterparts in a number of other countries: Australia, Canada, China, Latvia, Netherlands (two projects), Norway, and Sweden. These eleven projects in nine countries, implemented over the past decade, are at different stages of development and have been utilized for a wide range of assessments of entrepreneurial and business creation phenomena. This volume presents the state of the art of these international research projects, providing the first in-depth comparison of the firm creation data across a wide range of national contexts. The work will be of great interest to the research community, particularly those developing such projects in their own countries, as well as policy makers and scholars interested in the effect of national context on the business creation process. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Introduction....Pages 1-25 Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE): Project Presentation and Early Results....Pages 27-51 The Canadian Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics....Pages 53-93 Anatomy of Business Creation in China: Initial Assessment of the Chinese Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics....Pages 95-121 German Panel of Nascent Entrepreneurs....Pages 123-141 Latvia: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics Overview....Pages 143-174 New Business Creation in the Netherlands....Pages 175-193 Business Start-up Processes in Norway....Pages 195-222 The Swedish PSED: Performance in the Nascent Venturing Process and Beyond....Pages 223-253 United States: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics I, II Overview....Pages 255-294 Overview and Commentary....Pages 295-334 Back Matter....Pages 335-349