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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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In the present paper we address the relationship between the extent of business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focus upon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownership related to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...
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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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This note investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
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this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th … per capita income. This suggests that entrepreneurship plays a different role in countries in different stages of economic …
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This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
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. Synthesising key insights from mainstream economics, modern entrepreneurship theory and network theory, Mark Casson examines how … exploiting differences between wholesale and retail prices. Drawing from diverse alternative approaches to entrepreneurship, he … a novel entrepreneurship model that uses the connections between entrepreneurs, customers and producers to predict …
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