The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 73 No. 3 1991
New-Firm Survival and the Technological Regime
Abstract
The survival rates of over 11, 000 firms established in 1976 are compared across manufacturing industries. The variation in ten-year survival rates across industries is hypothesized to be the result of differences in the underlying technological regime and industry-specific characteristics, especially the extent of scale economies and capital intensity. Based on 295 four-digit standard industrial classification industries, new-firm survival is found to be promoted by the extent of small-firm innovative activity. The existence of substantial scale economies and a high capital-labor ratio tends to lower the likelihood of firm survival. However, these results apparently vary considerably with the time interval considered. Market concentration is found to promote short-run survival, while it has no impact on long-run survival.
- DOI
- 10.2307/2109568
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 441
- Sources
- crossref openalex