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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2014
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8219
Verlag: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our study demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the startup was founded out of necessity. Our results, based on a representative data set of 4,568 German start-ups, show that necessity entrepreneurs are more likely than other entrepreneurs to pursue a cost leadership strategy, and less likely to pursue a differentiation strategy. Decomposition analyses further show that up to half of the difference in choice of strategy can be attributed to distinct endowments of human capital, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship.
Schlagwörter: 
cost leadership
competitive strategy
new venture strategy
necessity entrepreneurship
product differentiation
decomposition analysis
JEL: 
L10
L26
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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