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Guanxi, performance and innovation in entrepreneurial service projects.
Arribas, Iván; Hernández, Penélope; Vila, Jose E. - Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar Comportament … - 2012
This paper analyzes the role played by two dimensions of entrepreneurs’ private social capital in the survival, growth and innovativeness of entrepreneurial service ventures: local size and preferential attachment degree. We build a bi-dimensional measure of social capital based on network...
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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273264
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Evolution of the venture capital financing for growing small and medium enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe countries: the case of Macedonia
Lazarevski, Dimche; Mrsik, Jadranka; Smokvarski, Edi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The objective of this paper is to examine and analyze the differences between Venture Capital development in Macedonia and several Central and Eastern Europe countries, to determine the reasons, and hence extract certain conclusions that will serve as a guideline in Macedonia’s venture capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260084
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China’s Institutional Architecture: A New Institutional Economics and Organization Theory Perspective on the Links between Local Governance and Local Enterprises
Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
We start our exploration of China’s institutional change by asking what the China experience can tell us about institutional economics and organization theory. We point to under-researched areas such as the formation of firms and the interplay between firms and local politics. Our...
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Innovation Networks in the Biotechnology-Based Sectors
Pyka, Andreas; Saviotti, Paolo - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2001
Technological progress in the biological sciences is now advancing across such a wide range and at such a pace, that, irrespective of size, no firm can hope to keep up in all the different areas. Participating in innovation networks, bundling of competencies and capabilities, therefore, offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022075
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The Contribution of "Empreender Project" to the Development of Micro and Small Enterprises' Networks at Santa Catarina State (Brazil)
Cardoso, Cristiane - Centro de Investigação sobre Espaços e … - 2011
In a globalized and increasingly competitive market, the organization of micro and small enterprises in network structures warrants the survival and competitiveness of companies and consequent development of the regions where they act. The “Empreender Project” has been a key factor for the...
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646307
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THE EFFECTS OF NETWORK’S STRUCTURAL HOLES: POLYCENTRIC INSTITUTIONS, PRODUCT PORTFOLIO, AND NEW VENTURE GROWTH IN CHINA AND RUSSIA
Batjargal, Bat - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2012
This study examines the effect of network’s structural holes, i.e., the absence of a link between two contacts who are both linked to an actor, on product development and profit growth of software ventures in two different institutional contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552176
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What is Entrepreneurship and What Entrepreneurship Policy Does Russia Need? (Marginal Notes on Works of Modern Foreign Classics)
Chepurenko, A. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 14 (2012) 2, pp. 102-124
leading world researchers concerning the role of entrepreneurship, its conditions of development and institutional design of …
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EUROPEAN TRENDS IN THE CONFIGURATION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE IN ROMANIA
Dinu, Mircea Alexandru - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 11(516)(supplement)(vol2) (2007) 11(516)(supplement)(vol2), pp. 183-188
The present essay sets out to present a picture of the potential for development of Romanian entrepreneurship. The … phenomenon of globalization at the level of the world market. The study of entrepreneurship as a phenomenon sees a growing … of the ways mentioned by the European Council is that of encouraging entrepreneurship, the aim being the creation of a …
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