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On the Mortality of Companies
Using data from both the US and UK we examine the survival and mortality of companies in both the early stage or start-up and mature phases. The shape of the mortality curve is broadly similar to that of humans. Even small single cellular organisms such as rotifers have a similar shape. The mortalit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35205503 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24020208 |
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author | Richmond, Peter Roehner, Bertrand M. |
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description | Using data from both the US and UK we examine the survival and mortality of companies in both the early stage or start-up and mature phases. The shape of the mortality curve is broadly similar to that of humans. Even small single cellular organisms such as rotifers have a similar shape. The mortality falls in the early stages in a hyperbolic manner until around 20–30 years when it begins to rise broadly according to the Gompertz exponential law. To explain in simple terms these features we adapt the MinMax model introduced by the authors elsewhere to explain the shape of the human mortality curve. |
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spelling | pubmed-88709192022-02-25 On the Mortality of Companies Richmond, Peter Roehner, Bertrand M. Entropy (Basel) Article Using data from both the US and UK we examine the survival and mortality of companies in both the early stage or start-up and mature phases. The shape of the mortality curve is broadly similar to that of humans. Even small single cellular organisms such as rotifers have a similar shape. The mortality falls in the early stages in a hyperbolic manner until around 20–30 years when it begins to rise broadly according to the Gompertz exponential law. To explain in simple terms these features we adapt the MinMax model introduced by the authors elsewhere to explain the shape of the human mortality curve. MDPI 2022-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8870919/ /pubmed/35205503 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24020208 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Richmond, Peter Roehner, Bertrand M. On the Mortality of Companies |
title | On the Mortality of Companies |
title_full | On the Mortality of Companies |
title_fullStr | On the Mortality of Companies |
title_full_unstemmed | On the Mortality of Companies |
title_short | On the Mortality of Companies |
title_sort | on the mortality of companies |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35205503 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24020208 |
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