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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP10597 |
DP10597 Identifying Gazelles: Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential | |
Marcel Fafchamps; Christopher Woodruff | |
发表日期 | 2015-05-17 |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We conduct a business plan competition to test whether survey instruments or panel judges are able to identify the fastest growing firms. Participants submitted six- to eight-page business plans and defended them before a three- or four-judge panel. We surveyed applicants shortly after they applied, and one and two years after the competition. We use follow-up surveys to construct measures of enterprise growth potential. We find that a measure of ability correlates strongly with future growth, but that panel scores add to predictive power even after controlling for ability and other survey variables. The survey questions have more power to explain the variance in growth. Participants presenting before the panel were given a chance to win customized management training. Fourteen months after the training, we find no positive effect of the training on growth of the business. |
主题 | Development Economics |
关键词 | Business plan competitions Firm growth High growth entrepreneurship |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10597 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539429 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcel Fafchamps,Christopher Woodruff. DP10597 Identifying Gazelles: Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential. 2015. |
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