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Growth and Profitability in Small and Medium Sized Australian Firms

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Steffens, Paul R.; Douglas, Evan J. - 2005

This study investigated the longitudinal behaviour of growth rates and profitability for a large sample of Australian firms. Similar to previous studies, growth rates were found to be much more volatile than profitability measures. Using a regression equation with lagged profit and growth...

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Marketing Buzz: Towards a Framework for Entrepreneurs

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Douglas, Evan J.; Steffens, Paul R. - 2007

Despite the increasing recognition of the importance of word of mouth as an integral component of a firms’ marketing efforts, there has been little emphasis on developing suitable guidelines for entrepreneurs who wish to leverage scarce resources by pursuing more innovative marketing...

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Market Potential and New Firm Formation

Grek, Jenny; Karlsson, Charlie; Klaesson, Johan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

The purpose of the paper is to show how entrepreneurship conditions vary between regions of various sizes, and test the … theoretical arguments on why large regions generally should generate more entrepreneurship. The paper empirically ana¬lyzes the … role of regional size in explaining varia¬tions in total entrepreneurship. It also examines en¬trepreneurship in different …

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Knowledge accessibility and New Firm Formation

Karlsson, Charlie; Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper investigates the role of knowledge for successful entrepreneurship. The paper explicitly discusses the role …

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