The influence of industry characteristics on new firms survival

The aim of this study is to verify the influence of industry characteristics on new firms’ survival in processing industries of mazandaran province during 1360-1386. Information and data collection have been gathered from mining- industries office of mazandaran province, also according to Event-History analysis performacel, the effect of independent variables has been checked on new company survival. The product limit estimator model (Kaplan-Maier) is used for data analysis and the Cox regression semi parametric model has been used for hypothesizes test. The result showed a meaningful relation between industry growth rates, measure mean and entrance rate on firm survival. In this research a comparison between companies’ survival functions has been checked according to entrance rate mean. Also a comparison between firm's survival functions has been carried out in different converting industries.