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Alex Coad
Researcher at Waseda University
Publications - 213
Citations - 9226
Alex Coad is an academic researcher from Waseda University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Productivity. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 213 publications receiving 7643 citations. Previous affiliations of Alex Coad include Pontifical Catholic University of Peru & Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach
TL;DR: Work and life satisfaction depend on a number of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors at the workplace and determine these in turn as discussed by the authors, finding that workplace autonomy plays an important causal role in determining well-being.
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Growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms
TL;DR: In this article, a multidimensional empirical analysis of firm growth is presented, showing that employment growth precedes sales growth, productivity growth lacks any strong association with subsequent growth of the other indicators, and profits growth represents the absorbing dimension of the growth processes.
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Diversification patterns and survival as firms mature
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the relationship between age and diversification patterns of German machine tool manufacturers in the post-war era and find that firms have lower diversification rates as they grow older.
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Firms as bundles of discrete resources - towards an explanation of the exponential distribution of firm growth rates
Alex Coad,Max Planck +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors sketch out a class of simple theoretical models capable of explaining the empirical regularity of the Laplace distribution of firm growth rates, which is a robust feature of the corporate growth process.
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High-Growth Firms: Stylized Facts and Conflicting Results
Fabiana Moreno,Alex Coad +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify some Stylized Facts, as well as contradictory findings, and also some unknowns regarding the determinants and internal strategies of HGFs, particularly on the persistence of their superior growth performance and the implications of recent findings for economic policy.