The "Demarrage of Firms": International Comparisons
研究了小企业从首次商业产出或接到第一笔订单开始的启动阶段（D阶段），基于法国、摩洛哥、突尼斯和美国缅因州的调查，比较不同国家企业的经历和问题。
Colette Fourcade lectures at the University of Montpellier, France, and has been carrying out research into the phase in the life of a small company which starts when the firm produces its first commercial output or when it receives its first orders and covers the first three to five years of existence before the firm starts to take off. This has been described as the "demarrage" or D-phase. This paper is based on a survey carried out by the Equipe de Recherche sur la Firme et l'Industrie (ERFI) at Montpellier University in the Languedoc-Rousillion region of France, Morocco, Tunisia and the State of Maine in the United States, and examines the experience and problems of companies in the D-phase in those countries.