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We provide a theory for career choices of employees willing to become entrepreneurs and facing credit constraints. We show that they need a sufficient mix of reputation and financial capital. We consider their choice to work for transparent or opaque firms. Transparent firms disclose more...
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This paper explores the relationship between innovation and vocational training. We consider a linear feedback model to … vocational training have a positive impact on the technological innovation. …
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This article investigates the effects of human capital and technological capital on innovation. While the role of … been made on the effect of employee training on innovation. This article explores the relationship between innovation and … training our results show that the firm employee training has a positive impact on technological innovation. …
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This paper aims at highlighting the debate on firm heterogeneity in the informal sector by testing whether entrepreneurial familial background impacts informal businesses outcomes in the West African context. In the USA, a literature aiming at understanding the high intergenerational correlation...
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thanks to a continuous process of knowledge and externalities accumulation (Aghion and Howitt, 1998). In that context, this … paper explores the relationship between innovation and vocational training. Our methodological approach allows to contribute … whatever the indicators, vocational training has a positive impact on the technological innovation. …
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This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …
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The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
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The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556858
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Shafer's evidence theory is a branch of the mathematics of uncertain reasoning that allows for novel possibilities to be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory purported by Shackle in the 1950s, before expected...
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