Who wants to live forever: exploring 30 years of research on business longevity

The drivers of firm longevity: Age, size, profitability and survivorship of Australian corporations, 1901–1930

“…The shortcomings of newness, adolescence and obsolescence, respectively, have all been interrogated. 59 Like individuals, firms learn from their experiences in a manner that can better prepare them for subsequent shocks. Internal capabilities may develop over time that enable firms to perform more productively and adapt organically to changes in their business orientation or the environment.…”

Business Failure and Entrepreneurship: Emergence, Evolution and Future Research

“…Failure is an omnipresent threat for many entrepreneurs, particularly at the nascent venturing stage; it is a topic that warrants careful consideration by entrepreneurship researchers. Yet both business historians and management scholars argue that studies to date have mainly concentrated on studying success cases and paid relatively little attention to firm failure [Riviezzo et al, 2015]. However, as highlighted by this review interest in the various facets of failure is increasing, and although studies on business failure remain disparate, studies exploring key aspects of the failure phenomenon are gaining momentum.…”

Along the Pathway of University Missions

“…Firstly, we employed a bibliometric analysis to draw a picture of the extant literature on the topic. Since it is based on the statistical measurement of science, scientists or scientific activity, bibliometric analysis is an objective and reproducible method to develop a review process (Verbeek et al, 2002;Diodato and Gellatly, 2013), and it is increasingly used in social sciences (e.g., Teixeira et al, 2012;Riviezzo et al, 2015;Schmitz et al, 2017;Mascarenhas et al, 2017;Fusco and Ricci, 2019). There are two main approaches in conducting a bibliometric analysis: performance analysis and science mapping (Noyons et al, 1999;van Raan, 2003;Cobo et al, 2011;Zupic and Čater, 2015).…”