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Interregional migration of business owners: who moves and how does moving affect firm performance?

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  • Thomas Niedomysl
  • John Källström
  • Sierdjan Koster
  • John Östh

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Business owners play an important role in driving regional economic growth, and policy-makers seek to attract and retain such entrepreneurs by most means available. This paper analyses migration patterns, the factors that influence the propensity to move and assesses the relationship between firm performance and individual migration both before and after the move. The results show that (1) known explaining variables of migration propensity also hold for business owners; (2) owners with more substantial firms in terms of turnover and employees are more geographically anchored; and (3) a simultaneous move of residence and firm has an unclear impact on firm performance.

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  • Thomas Niedomysl & John Källström & Sierdjan Koster & John Östh, 2019. "Interregional migration of business owners: who moves and how does moving affect firm performance?," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(4), pages 503-516, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:53:y:2019:i:4:p:503-516
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1462486
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    1. Baoyin Qiu & Bo Cheng & Hangeng Qiu & Kam C. Chan, 2022. "Do firms with foreign residency rights controlling shareholders reduce R&D investment?," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 43(5), pages 1403-1422, July.
    2. Cybulska Magdalena & Dziemianowicz Wojciech, 2020. "Quo Vadis, Business? The migration of companies between cities using the example of the Mazowieckie voivodship in Poland," Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, Sciendo, vol. 24(4), pages 218-231, October.
    3. Daria Kautto, 2019. "Social influences in cross-border entrepreneurial migration policy," Journal of International Business Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 2(4), pages 397-412, December.
    4. Meng, Qingbin & Li, Haitong & Chan, Kam C., 2023. "Fleeing entrepreneurs: Foreign residency right and corporate risk-taking," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
    5. Jane Wuth, 2023. "(Why) Do digital startups move to rural regions?," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(4), pages 845-862, May.

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