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Palveluyrittäjyys kasvaa nopeimmin ja työllistää eniten
Rouvinen, Petri; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - 2004
This report studies start-ups and entrepreneurship particularly in services. The report is largely based on a survey … entrepreneurship in services has grown the fastest and employs the most. Service and female entrepreneurship seem to be on the increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199880
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Small firms in cross-border business networks with the CEEC : evidence from Austria
Huber, Peter - 2003
This paper analyses the co-operation activities of small Austrian firms with the CEEC and compares them to those of larger firms. Small firms are less likely to engage in cross-border co-operation than larger firms, more likely to co-operate in ownership based forms of co-operation but less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494238
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Palveluyrittäjyys kasvaa nopeimmin ja työllistää eniten
Rouvinen, Petri; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - 2004
This report studies start-ups and entrepreneurship particularly in services. The report is largely based on a survey … entrepreneurship in services has grown the fastest and employs the most. Service and female entrepreneurship seem to be on the increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326910
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437587
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262083
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Understanding the role of entrepreneurship for economic growth
Carree, Martin A.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276805
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Entrepreneurship, economic growth and policy in emerging economies
Thurik, A. Roy - 2009
Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur … countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This led to the political mandate to promote entrepreneurship. Hence, a clear and … organized view is needed of what the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship are. The present contribution tries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276873
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Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition and development, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476783
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477143
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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Brück, Tilman; Naudé, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - 2013
entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319889