Positive societal change happens when community members, supporters, and
entrepreneurially minded agents come together to aggregate resources and build new …

The United States' metropolitan areas' ever-changing economies, demographics, and
morphologies have fostered opportunity for some and hardship for others. These differential …

Manufacturing-led development has provided the traditional model for creating jobs and
prosperity. But in the past three decades the conventional pattern of structural transformation …

The arrival of global retail chains in develo** countries is causing a radical transformation
in the way households source their consumption. This paper draws on a rich collection of …

Robert B. Reich is professor of Public Policy at Berkeley (California). He is well known as a
“liberal” politician. He was the secretary of Labour in the Clinton administration. He has …

In the past few decades multistore retailers, especially those with 100 or more stores, have
experienced substantial growth. At the same time, there is widely reported public outcry over …

Abstract We use the National Establishment Time Series (NETS) to revisit the debate about
the role of small businesses in job creation (Birch, 1987; Davis, Haltiwanger, & Schuh …

New firms are an important source of job creation, but the underlying economic mechanisms
for why this is so are not well understood. Using an identification strategy that links shocks to …

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business
formation. The local environment influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial …

The rollout of Wal‐Mart store openings followed a pattern that radiated from the center
outward, with Wal‐Mart maintaining high store density and a contiguous store network all …