Entrepreneurial firms: With whom do they compete, and where?

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Cowling, Marc and Nadeem, Simon Peter 2020. Entrepreneurial firms: With whom do they compete, and where? Review of Industrial Organization. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-020-09782-y
AuthorsCowling, Marc and Nadeem, Simon Peter
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Many different theories that have attempted to explain why smaller entrepreneurial firms exist. Surprisingly, very little empirical work has tested the obvious questions, such as: Are small firm’s price-takers in highly competitive markets? Who do they compete against? What if they try to raise prices? Does innovation offer niche market protection? Using a large UK data set our key findings are that less than 5% of entrepreneurial firms operate in markets where they effectively have no competition and a quarter of all small firms would lose at least a third of their sales if they raised prices by 10%.

KeywordsCompetition; Entrepreneurship; Market Structure; Market Niches; Small Business
Year2020
JournalReview of Industrial Organization
PublisherSpringer
ISSN0889-938X
1573-7160
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-020-09782-y
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