Anatomy of New Business Activity in Australia: Some Early Observations from the CAUSEE Project

Davidsson, Per and Steffens, Paul R. and Gordon, Scott R. and Reynolds, Paul (2008) Anatomy of New Business Activity in Australia: Some Early Observations from the CAUSEE Project. (Unpublished)

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The Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE) is the largest study of new firm formations ever undertaken in Australia . In a nutshell, CAUSEE aims to uncover the factors that initiate, hinder and facilitate the process of emergence and development of new, independent firms. Through contacts with a random sample of 30,000 Australian households the project has identified and interviewed close to 600 founders of on-going business start-ups – Nascent Firms; i.e., efforts that are under way but have not yet become operating businesses – as well as more than 500 owner-managers of Young Firms – that is, firms that started trading in 2004 or later. Founders of these firms have been taken through a comprehensive telephone interview about the state and development of their start-ups. The project will follow the development of these nascent and young firms over a four year period. This report represents a first release of selected, descriptive findings from the first wave of data analysis. Although some reported findings may have important implications it should be realised that what is presented here represents just a glimpse of the rich academic and practice-orientated output that is expected from the project.

ID Code:	13613
Item Type:	Report
Additional Information :	For any further information regarding this report, please contact Per Davidsson Phone: +61 7 3138 2051 Email: per.davidsson@qut.edu.au
Keywords :	Entrepreneurship, Australian Entrepreneurship, Per Davidsson, Paul Steffens, Paul Reynolds, Scott Gordon, Young Firms, Entrepreneur Statistics, CAUSEE, Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence, Young Firm Statistics
Subjects:	Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > COMMERCE MANAGEMENT TOURISM AND SERVICES (150000) > COMMERCIAL SERVICES (150400) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > COMMERCE MANAGEMENT TOURISM AND SERVICES (150000) > BANKING FINANCE AND INVESTMENT (150200) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > COMMERCE MANAGEMENT TOURISM AND SERVICES (150000) > BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (150300) > International Business (150308) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > COMMERCE MANAGEMENT TOURISM AND SERVICES (150000) > BANKING FINANCE AND INVESTMENT (150200) > Banking Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified (150299) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > COMMERCE MANAGEMENT TOURISM AND SERVICES (150000) > BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (150300) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > COMMERCE MANAGEMENT TOURISM AND SERVICES (150000) > BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (150300) > Small Business Management (150314) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > COMMERCE MANAGEMENT TOURISM AND SERVICES (150000) > BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (150300) > Innovation and Technology Management (150307)
Divisions:	QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Business
Copyright Owner :	Copyright 2008 (The authors)
Deposited On:	22 May 2008
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2009 02:32

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