TY  - SER
AU  - Bird, Miriam
TI  - Regional influences on the prevalence of family versus non-f ups
PY  - 2014///
KW  - Regional Environment
KW  - Organizational Ecology
KW  - Start-Ups
KW  - Family Business
N2  - We integrate insights from family business and organizational ecology into the entrepreneurship field by constructing a theoretical framework that explains how the regional context impacts family and non-family start-ups in differing ways. Regional count data models based on a rich longitudinal dataset reveal that while economic factors such as population size and  growth in regions are primarily associated with the number of non-family start-ups, factors related to regional embeddedness, such as pre-existing small family businesses as well as favorable community attitudes toward small businesses, are more strongly associated with the number of family start-ups. Our research provides support for the notion that
ER  -