Data Source
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Description
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Published Research Exemplars
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VentureXpert (now part of Thomson ONE)
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venture capital and portfolio firm data, including deals, ownership, fund profiles
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Anokhin, , & Oghazi (2016); Block, De Vries, Schumann, & Sandner (2014); Cumming & Dai (2013); Dutta & Folta (2016)
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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public companies’ annual proxy statements; corporate financial statements; crowdfunding offerings data; executive compensation; prospectus
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Block (2012); Tuggle, Schnatterly, & Johnson (2010)
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Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM)
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Brazil’s equivalent to U.S. SEC
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Inoue, Lazzarini, & Musacchio (2013)
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Compustat
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accounting data on active and inactive U.S. public companies (1950-present)
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Tuggle, Schnatterly, & Johnson (2010); Miller & Breton-Miller (2011); Fernhaber & Li (2010);
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ExecuComp
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Executive compensation data (salary, bonuses, stock options) and firm financial data for S&P 1000 firms (1992-present)
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Engelen, Neumann, & Schwens (2015); Martin, Gómez‐Mejía, Berrone, & Makri (2017)
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Kickstarter
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crowdfunding data
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Allison, Davis, Webb, & Short (2017); Butticè, Colombo, & Wright (2017); Kuppuswamy & Bayus (2017); Skirnevskiy, Bendig, & Brettel (2017)
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Crowdcube
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UK crowdfunding data
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Vismara (2016)
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Kiva API
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crowdfunding loan/microfinance data
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Moss, Neubaum, & Meyskens (2015)
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Compact Disclosure
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data on publicly traded companies, compiled from SEC filings
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Miller & Breton-Miller (2011)
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Hoover’s
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public company
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Miller & Breton-Miller (2011)
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Center for Research on Security Prices of the University of Chicago (CRSP)
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market performance data
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Miller & Breton-Miller (2011)
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RAMS and LISA from Statistics Sweden
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annual data on all Swedish firms
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Bird & Wennberg (2014)
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Corporate Library (Board Analyst)
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shareholder proposals; corporate board structure; executive and director compensation; publicly traded companies
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Martin, Gómez‐Mejía, Berrone, & Makri (2017)
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Bel-First database of Bureau Van Dijk
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financial data for companies in Belgium and Luxembourg; data on board of directors; size (employees); employee turnover
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Molly, Laveren, & Jorissen (2012)
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Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
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annual accounting reports filed by Chinese industrial firm
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Du, Guariglia, & Newman (2015)
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United States Federal Reserve
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bank market competitiveness
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Saparito, Elam, & Brush (2013)
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Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s Prowess database
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financial performance and marketing data for over 27,000 Indian public and private firms
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Chen, Chittoor, & Vissa (2015)
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Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
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News/media releases
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Mouri, Sarkar, & Frye (2012)
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Press/media outlets
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Jiang & Ruling (2017)
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Social media: Twitter, Facebook. Blogs, LinkedIn, YouTube
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Fischer & Reuber (2014)
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Company web sites
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e.g., mission statements
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U.S. Census Bureau
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self-employment data; business dynamics
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Lofstrom, Bates, & Parker (2014)
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U.S. Census' County Business Patterns datasets (CBP)
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cross-section of annual subnational economic data on U.S. companies since 1986, including of establishments, payroll, and weekly employment; available by geographical area, industry, legal organizational form, and designated employee size; downloadable in format
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Plummer & Acs (2014)
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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regional patents granted in industrialized and developing nations
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Plummer & Acs (2014)
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European Patent Office (EPO) Worldwide Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT)
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patent application data
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Block, De Vries, Schumann, & Sandner (2014); Fischer & Ringler (2014)
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World Bank Enterprise Survey
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business environment data collected from owners and top managers of businesses with at least 5 employees, in numerous countries: access to finance, corruption, innovation, competition, performance
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Williams, Martinez‐Perez, & Kedir (2017)
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National Science Foundation
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federal research and development expenditures
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Plummer & Acs (2014)
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Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial
Emergence (CAUSEE)
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four-year longitudinal data on 625 new and 559 young firms
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Crawford, Aguinis, Lichtenstein, Davidsson, & McKelvey (2015)
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