How does distance to urban centres influence necessity and opportunity‐based firm start‐ups?

Lavesson, Niclas

doi:10.1111/pirs.12289

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“…The results must thus be taken as stylized facts, and they can be supplemented by studies that consider the mechanisms more directly, for example, by assessing firm location and the geographical markets in which it is active. Also, it is plausible that different types of start-up-service vs. manufacturing, new vs. new branch, and opportunity vs. necessity-are impacted differently by national settlement patterns (Lavesson 2017). And while this explorative study focused on three illustrative countries, it would be interesting to study a wider variety of national settlement patterns.…”

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Urbanization and start-up rates in different geographies: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Hans

Koster

2017

Small Bus Econ

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This study addresses the mediating role of settlement patterns in the relationship between urbanization and start-up activity. Places do not operate in a vacuum and to understand the effect of Bown^density on start-up patterns, we need to account for the urban spillovers or borrowed size that they may experience from other places nearby. The results can explain the empirical ambiguity in the relationship between urbanization and start-up patterns: the relationship between urbanization and start-up rates becomes more similar between countries when controlling for countryspecific settlement patterns by including a spatially lagged urbanization variable and variables measuring the distance to urban centers. Accounting for the relative location of places and relevant sorting effects, we find that Bown^density has a consistently negative effect on start-up activity. Yet, access to other places has a generally positive effect. This implies that nearby regions profit from the advantages offered by urban environments without having to deal with the costs involved.

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“…Secondly, access to cities can be an explaining factor of start-up patterns (Lavesson 2017). The concept of Bborrowed size^ (Alonso 1973) provides a useful explanation here.…”

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Urbanization and start-up rates in different geographies: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Hans

Koster

2017

Small Bus Econ

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“…It is empirically impossible to clearly define necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship-a measure of the entrepreneur has an alternative wage and salary job-without survey data (Fairlie & Fossen, 2018;Lavesson, 2017). With the firm-based data used in this study, we instead proxy for necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship using firm size at its start, as do other studies.…”

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Opportunity, necessity, and no one in the middle: A closer look at small, rural, and female‐led entrepreneurship in the United States

Conroy

Low

2021

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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Female entrepreneurs in rural America are rarely studied, despite local economic context likely shaping their (self‐) employment choices. Development literature suggests entrepreneurship is most prevalent at the lowest and highest income levels, creating a U‐shaped relationship between economic development measured with per capita income on the x‐axis and the entrepreneurship rate (startups) on the y‐axis. At the county level in the United States, we find that female‐led startup rates vary with per capita income in the predicted U‐shape. Results provide support for place‐based entrepreneurship policy and highlight challenges women face while trying to contribute to the rural economy.

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“…While the role of agglomeration factors is typically "described" in the literature on the geography of entrepreneurship, issues of rural-urban interdependencies and distance to urban centers are often not explicitly addressed. Lavesson (2018) is an exception. He studies how distance to urban centers influence Swedish start-ups.…”

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“…Lavesson (2018) only finds that longer distance deters local new firm formation when he considers distances to "large" urban centers, i.e. Stockholm, Malmö and Göteborg, which are Sweden's largest urban areas.…”

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Local Rates of New Firm Formation: An Empirical Exploration Using Swedish Data

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Lavesson²,

Partridge³

2019

SSRN Journal

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How does distance to urban centres influence necessity and opportunity‐based firm start‐ups?

Cited by 15 publications

References 68 publications

Urbanization and start-up rates in different geographies: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Urbanization and start-up rates in different geographies: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Opportunity, necessity, and no one in the middle: A closer look at small, rural, and female‐led entrepreneurship in the United States

Local Rates of New Firm Formation: An Empirical Exploration Using Swedish Data

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