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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.4.2376

The Comparative Analysis about the Firm Growth Between Large Enterprises and SMEs in the IT Companies located in Gyeonggi-do  

Yoon, Choong-Han (Department of Economics, Hanyang University)
Son, Jong Chil (Economic Research Institute, the Bank of Korea)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.4, 2014 , pp. 2376-2381 More about this Journal
Abstract
The necessity for co-prosperity between large and small businesses has emerged as a top policy priority as economic polarization has been exacerbated since the 2008 global financial crisis. Against this background this paper makes a detailed analysis of differences between SMEs (Small and Medium sized businesses) and large enterprises located in Gyeong-do, in respect of growth. The data set used in the analysis is the 15 year(1996-2010) panel data of IT companies (large enterprises: 80 data and SMEs: 437 data) collected from the KISVALUE database. The estimation results of Pooled OLS indicate that the coefficients representing corporate size are less than 1, which implies that the Gibrat's law, no correlation between the size of a firm and its growth rate, is not supported by the data. In the meantime, the estimated coefficients representing corporate age are negative, which implies that Jovanovic hypothesis, inverse correlation between the age and the growth rate of a firm, is consistent with the data. In short, SMEs, which are generally younger than big enterprises can achieve higher growth rate than the latter ones which are usually believed to be older. In addition, the more export- and innovation-oriented the firm, the higher its growth rates.
Keywords
Firm growth; Gibrat's law; Jovanovic hypothesis; Large enterprise; SMEs;
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