Steven Klepper
Biographic Data
| ID | 298530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Klepper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Klepper |
| SIGNATURE | KLEPPER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 307 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Entrepreneurship, the initial labor force, and the location of new firms
Experimental Capitalism: The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries
Nano-economics, spinoffs, and the wealth of regions
The historical evolution of four prominent industry clusters is compared: automobiles in Detroit, Michigan, tires in Akron, Ohio, semiconductors in Silicon Valley, California, and cotton garments in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Detailed data are collected concerning the intellectual and geographic origins of entrants into the clusters and other regions to probe the mechanisms underlying geographic clustering. The main mechanism at work in the four clusters…
The origin and growth of industry clusters: The making of Silicon Valley and Detroit
Why does entry cluster geographically? Evidence from the US tire industry
Silicon Valley, a Chip off the Old Detroit Bloc
Introduction Silicon Valley is the envy of the world, one of the most celebrated regions of economic growth in modern history. We are accustomed to thinking of it as the outgrowth of a unique confluence of ingredients. One is its roots as an early incubator of now famous electronics firms, including Hewlett Packard, Varian Associates, and Litton Industries. Another is Stanford University, led by its innovative dean of engineering and eventual pro…
Heritage and Agglomeration: The Akron Tyre Cluster Revisited
We use new data on the location and background of entrants into the US tyre industry to analyse why the industry became so regionally concentrated around Akron, Ohio, a small city with no compelling advantages for tyre production. We analyse where the Ohio entrants originated and conduct various analyses of how proximity to other tyre firms affected the longevity of tyre producers. We also examine how the heritage of the Ohio entrants influenced …
Disagreements, Spinoffs, and the Evolution of Detroit as the Capital of the U.S. Automobile Industry
The agglomeration of the automobile industry around Detroit, Michigan is explained using a theory in which disagreements lead employees of incumbent firms to found spinoffs in the same industry. Predictions of the theory concerning entry and firm survival are tested using data on the origin, location, and years of production of every entrant into the industry from 1895 to 1966. The geographic concentration of the industry is attributed to four ea…
A Shop Floor View of Growth in Turn-of-the-Century Cleveland
This paper is a comment on Mobilizing Venture Capital During the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870 - 1920 by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret C. Levenstein and Kenneth L. Sokoloff which can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2205966
Entry by Spinoffs
Entry by spinoffs from incumbent firms is investigated for the laser industry. A model in which spinoffs exploit knowledge from their parents is constructed to explain the market conditions conducive to spinoffs, the types of firms that spawn spinoffs, and the relationship of spinoffs to their parents. The model is tested using detailed data on all laser entrants from the start of the industry through 1994. Our findings support the basic premise …
The capabilities of new firms and the evolution of the US automobile industry
Firms that diversify into new and existing industries typically outperform de novo entrants, but in some new industries diversifying firms are displaced by later‐entering de novo firms. Little is known about when and how new firms can overcome the advantages of diversifying firms. This is investigated for one industry, automobiles, where new firms had considerable success. All the entrants into the industry from its inception in 1895 through 1966…
Employee Startups in High-Tech Industries
Various theories that can account for employees leaving incumbent firms to start their own firms in the same industry are discussed. The theories are evaluated using evidence from three new and one old study of such employee startups in high‐tech industries and from studies of high‐tech and high‐growth startups of all kinds. A new, evolutionary‐based theory that builds on and extends existing theories is sketched out to provide a novel interpreta…
Industry Life Cycles
Evidence on entry, exit, firm survival, innovation and firm structure in new industries is reviewed to assess whether industries proceed through regular cycles as they age. A leading depiction of the evolution of new industries, the product life cycle, is used to organize the evidence. It is shown that the product lift cycle captures the way many industries evolve through their formative eras, but regular patterns occur when industries are mature…
Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D
Wesley M. Cohen, Steven Klepper, Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 78, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 232-243
A Reprise of Size and R & D
Journal Article A Reprise of Size and R & D Get access Wesley M. Cohen, Wesley M. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven Klepper Steven Klepper Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 437, 1 July 1996, Pages 925–951, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235365 Published: 01 July 1996
Symposium on Harrison's ?Lean and Mean: A technological perspective
The tradeoff between firm size and diversity in the pursuit of technological progress
The role of tax preparers in tax compliance
The Deterrent Effect of Perceived Certainty and Severity of Punishment Revisited
This paper synthesizes and extends recent criticisms of cross‐sectional and panel studies of perceptual deterrence and then uses those criticisms to design a better cross‐sectional study. A series of scenarios involving the noncompliance of a hypothetical plumber were posed to a sample of predominantly middle‐aged administrators. The respondents were asked to estimate the probability that the noncompliance would be detected and, if detected, the …
Tax Compliance and Perceptions of the Risks of Detection and Criminal Prosecution
In this paper we use a survey concerning a hypothetical taxpayer to analyze how certain features of the enforcement of the tax laws shape perceptions of the risks of detection and penalties for tax noncompliance. We also examine the effects of these perceptions on intended noncompliance behavior. Our findings provide strong support for various hypotheses concerning the effect of the enforcement process on perceptions. We also find, in contrast to…
The Development of Illness Orientations in Children Aged 6 through 12
Attitudes et comportements de l'enfant a l'egard de la maladie: on propose un modele. L'accent est mis sur l'importance de la variable: estime de soi, chez l'enfant et sur les facteurs tenant a la famille: niveau d'instruction des parents, attitudes educatives, utilisation des services de sante, race ou ethnie
Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations
Journal Article Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations Get access Michael Gort, Michael Gort State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven Klepper Steven Klepper Carnegie-Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 367, 1 September 1982, Pages 630–653, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
The Deterrent Effect of Perceived Certainty and Severity of Punishment Revisited
This paper synthesizes and extends recent criticisms of cross‐sectional and panel studies of perceptual deterrence and then uses those criticisms to design a better cross‐sectional study. A series of scenarios involving the noncompliance of a hypothetical plumber were posed to a sample of predominantly middle‐aged administrators. The respondents were asked to estimate the probability that the noncompliance would be detected and, if detected, the …
Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations
Journal Article Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations Get access Michael Gort, Michael Gort State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven Klepper Steven Klepper Carnegie-Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 367, 1 September 1982, Pages 630–653, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Tax Compliance and Perceptions of the Risks of Detection and Criminal Prosecution
In this paper we use a survey concerning a hypothetical taxpayer to analyze how certain features of the enforcement of the tax laws shape perceptions of the risks of detection and penalties for tax noncompliance. We also examine the effects of these perceptions on intended noncompliance behavior. Our findings provide strong support for various hypotheses concerning the effect of the enforcement process on perceptions. We also find, in contrast to…
A Reprise of Size and R & D
Journal Article A Reprise of Size and R & D Get access Wesley M. Cohen, Wesley M. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven Klepper Steven Klepper Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 437, 1 July 1996, Pages 925–951, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235365 Published: 01 July 1996
Heritage and Agglomeration: The Akron Tyre Cluster Revisited
We use new data on the location and background of entrants into the US tyre industry to analyse why the industry became so regionally concentrated around Akron, Ohio, a small city with no compelling advantages for tyre production. We analyse where the Ohio entrants originated and conduct various analyses of how proximity to other tyre firms affected the longevity of tyre producers. We also examine how the heritage of the Ohio entrants influenced …
The origin and growth of industry clusters: The making of Silicon Valley and Detroit
The role of tax preparers in tax compliance
Why does entry cluster geographically? Evidence from the US tire industry
The Development of Illness Orientations in Children Aged 6 through 12
Attitudes et comportements de l'enfant a l'egard de la maladie: on propose un modele. L'accent est mis sur l'importance de la variable: estime de soi, chez l'enfant et sur les facteurs tenant a la famille: niveau d'instruction des parents, attitudes educatives, utilisation des services de sante, race ou ethnie
Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations
Journal Article Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations Get access Michael Gort, Michael Gort State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven Klepper Steven Klepper Carnegie-Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 367, 1 September 1982, Pages 630–653, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
The Development of Illness Orientations in Children Aged 6 through 12
Attitudes et comportements de l'enfant a l'egard de la maladie: on propose un modele. L'accent est mis sur l'importance de la variable: estime de soi, chez l'enfant et sur les facteurs tenant a la famille: niveau d'instruction des parents, attitudes educatives, utilisation des services de sante, race ou ethnie
The role of tax preparers in tax compliance
The Deterrent Effect of Perceived Certainty and Severity of Punishment Revisited
This paper synthesizes and extends recent criticisms of cross‐sectional and panel studies of perceptual deterrence and then uses those criticisms to design a better cross‐sectional study. A series of scenarios involving the noncompliance of a hypothetical plumber were posed to a sample of predominantly middle‐aged administrators. The respondents were asked to estimate the probability that the noncompliance would be detected and, if detected, the …
Tax Compliance and Perceptions of the Risks of Detection and Criminal Prosecution
In this paper we use a survey concerning a hypothetical taxpayer to analyze how certain features of the enforcement of the tax laws shape perceptions of the risks of detection and penalties for tax noncompliance. We also examine the effects of these perceptions on intended noncompliance behavior. Our findings provide strong support for various hypotheses concerning the effect of the enforcement process on perceptions. We also find, in contrast to…
The tradeoff between firm size and diversity in the pursuit of technological progress
Symposium on Harrison's ?Lean and Mean: A technological perspective
Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D
Wesley M. Cohen, Steven Klepper, Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 78, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 232-243
A Reprise of Size and R & D
Journal Article A Reprise of Size and R & D Get access Wesley M. Cohen, Wesley M. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven Klepper Steven Klepper Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 437, 1 July 1996, Pages 925–951, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235365 Published: 01 July 1996
Industry Life Cycles
Evidence on entry, exit, firm survival, innovation and firm structure in new industries is reviewed to assess whether industries proceed through regular cycles as they age. A leading depiction of the evolution of new industries, the product life cycle, is used to organize the evidence. It is shown that the product lift cycle captures the way many industries evolve through their formative eras, but regular patterns occur when industries are mature…
Employee Startups in High-Tech Industries
Various theories that can account for employees leaving incumbent firms to start their own firms in the same industry are discussed. The theories are evaluated using evidence from three new and one old study of such employee startups in high‐tech industries and from studies of high‐tech and high‐growth startups of all kinds. A new, evolutionary‐based theory that builds on and extends existing theories is sketched out to provide a novel interpreta…
The capabilities of new firms and the evolution of the US automobile industry
Firms that diversify into new and existing industries typically outperform de novo entrants, but in some new industries diversifying firms are displaced by later‐entering de novo firms. Little is known about when and how new firms can overcome the advantages of diversifying firms. This is investigated for one industry, automobiles, where new firms had considerable success. All the entrants into the industry from its inception in 1895 through 1966…
Entry by Spinoffs
Entry by spinoffs from incumbent firms is investigated for the laser industry. A model in which spinoffs exploit knowledge from their parents is constructed to explain the market conditions conducive to spinoffs, the types of firms that spawn spinoffs, and the relationship of spinoffs to their parents. The model is tested using detailed data on all laser entrants from the start of the industry through 1994. Our findings support the basic premise …
A Shop Floor View of Growth in Turn-of-the-Century Cleveland
This paper is a comment on Mobilizing Venture Capital During the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870 - 1920 by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret C. Levenstein and Kenneth L. Sokoloff which can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2205966
Disagreements, Spinoffs, and the Evolution of Detroit as the Capital of the U.S. Automobile Industry
The agglomeration of the automobile industry around Detroit, Michigan is explained using a theory in which disagreements lead employees of incumbent firms to found spinoffs in the same industry. Predictions of the theory concerning entry and firm survival are tested using data on the origin, location, and years of production of every entrant into the industry from 1895 to 1966. The geographic concentration of the industry is attributed to four ea…
Silicon Valley, a Chip off the Old Detroit Bloc
Introduction Silicon Valley is the envy of the world, one of the most celebrated regions of economic growth in modern history. We are accustomed to thinking of it as the outgrowth of a unique confluence of ingredients. One is its roots as an early incubator of now famous electronics firms, including Hewlett Packard, Varian Associates, and Litton Industries. Another is Stanford University, led by its innovative dean of engineering and eventual pro…
Heritage and Agglomeration: The Akron Tyre Cluster Revisited
We use new data on the location and background of entrants into the US tyre industry to analyse why the industry became so regionally concentrated around Akron, Ohio, a small city with no compelling advantages for tyre production. We analyse where the Ohio entrants originated and conduct various analyses of how proximity to other tyre firms affected the longevity of tyre producers. We also examine how the heritage of the Ohio entrants influenced …
The origin and growth of industry clusters: The making of Silicon Valley and Detroit
Why does entry cluster geographically? Evidence from the US tire industry
Nano-economics, spinoffs, and the wealth of regions
The historical evolution of four prominent industry clusters is compared: automobiles in Detroit, Michigan, tires in Akron, Ohio, semiconductors in Silicon Valley, California, and cotton garments in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Detailed data are collected concerning the intellectual and geographic origins of entrants into the clusters and other regions to probe the mechanisms underlying geographic clustering. The main mechanism at work in the four clusters…
Experimental Capitalism: The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries
Entrepreneurship, the initial labor force, and the location of new firms
Economics (17 works) · Business (14 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (13 works) · Industrial organization (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (6 works) · Entrepreneurship (6 works) · Innovation and Knowledge Management (5 works) · Law (5 works)