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Economics of International Business sets out a new agenda for international business research. Mark Casson asserts that it is time to move the subject on from sterile debates about transaction cost economies and resource-based theories of the firm. Instead of focusing on the individual firm, the...
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In this important new book, Mark Casson argues that the fundamental significance of entrepreneurship requires it be … judgemental decision-maker, and relates these functions to the size and growth of the firm. Mark Casson discusses entrepreneurship …
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Andrew Godley (1996), 'Jewish Soft Loan Societies in New York and London and Immigrant Entrepreneurship, 1880 … Respectability', in The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c. 1800-1870, Chapter 4 … Entrepreneurship: The Case of Thomas B. Thrige', Business History, 35 (2), 33-44 -- David Nasaw (2006), 'War and Riches, 1860-1865', in …
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knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …
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New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...
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Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base their economic development strategies, at least partly, on building communities attractive to the creative class worker. While there are countless examples of high-tech regions...
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Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...
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raised in this important volume include cultural perspectives on economic issues, entrepreneurship in a cultural context and … the political economy of national culture. Entrepreneurship and Business Culture presents a state-of-the-art analysis of … entrepreneurship and the social structures in which it is embedded. Together with its companion volume, The Organization of …
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Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...
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