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How do firms choose legal form of organization?
Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this study, we analyze the firm’s choice of legal form of organization (“LFO”). We find that only about one in three firms begins operations as a proprietorship, while almost as many begin as limited-liability companies and as corporations. Moreover, this distribution is remarkably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226802
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Bank credit, trade credit or no credit: Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances
Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this study, we use data from the SSBFs to provide new information about the use of credit by small businesses in the U.S. More specifically, we first analyze firms that do and do not use credit; and then analyze why some firms use trade credit while others use bank credit. We find that one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615030
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Entrepreneurship and its Link to Corruption: Assessment with the Most Recent World and Country-Group Data
Driouchi, Ahmed; Gamar, Alae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Entrepreneurship is an important intangible asset of nations. The relatively recent progress in its measurement, mainly … with the Global Entrepreneurship Development Index (GEDI), suggests that previous questions related to its determinants and … effect of corruption reduction on GEDI and thus the positive relationship between an intangible good that is entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183135
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Hofstede’s Cultural Indicators, Knowledge Economy and Entrepreneurship in Arab Countries
Driouchi, Ahmed; Gamar, Alae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract: This paper looks at the links between cultural variables, knowledge indices and entrepreneurship in Arab … Eastern European Economies. The results show also that entrepreneurship is linked to cultural variables in Arab countries … economy and entrepreneurship in Arab countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113502