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It Takes Two to Tango: Entrepreneurship and Creativity in Troubled Times – Vietnam 2012

Dang Le Nguyen, Vu; Napier, Nancy K.; Vuong, Quan Hoang - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2012

entrepreneurship and creativity in business conducted within a turbulent environment. Our initial hypothesis is that a typical … also examines many previous findings on both entrepreneurship and creativity and suggests a highly possible “organic growth …” of creativity in an entrepreneurial environment and reinforcing value of entrepreneurship when creativity power is …

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Labor Regulations and European Private Equity

Bozkaya, ANT; R. Kerr, William - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2009

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g. unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms....

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Surveying technology-based small firms: a perspective from Belgium

ROMAIN, Astrid Romain; van Pottelsberghe de la … - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2003

affecting entrepreneurship and on the financial architecture of the firms. The survey data of 103 TBSFs shows that 82 percent of … development. Several strengths and weaknesses of the Belgian framework conditions for entrepreneurship are identified. The results …

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Getting to the Real Story: What Vietnamese business people wish foreigners understood about doing business in emerging and transition countries like Vietnam – BEFORE they start

Vuong, Quan Hoang; Napier, Nancy K. - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

Knowledge sharing typically examines organizational transfer of knowledge, often from headquarters to subsidiaries, from developed country sites to emerging country sites, or from host to local employees. Yes, recent research, such as Prahalad’s Bottom of the Pyramid, raises the question of...

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Trust and earn more? The Impact of Trust on Corporate Performance

Rothenberger, Sandra; Tackx, Koen - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014

In this article we investigate the impact of personal and organizational trust on the financial performance of companies over a period of time. The effect of trust on various economic and managerial transactions is being researched extensively over the last two decades but previous research did...

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Microcredit in Developed Countries: Unexpected Consequences of Loan Ceilings

Szafarz, Ariane; Cozarenco, Anastasia - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014

In most developed countries, regulators have imposed loan ceilings to subsidized microfinance institutions (MFIs). Micro-entrepreneurs in need of above-ceiling loans are left with the co-financing option, which means securing the aboveceiling share of the loan with a regular bank, and getting a...

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Borrowing and Women’s Empowerment: Does Type of Credit Matter?

Szafarz, Ariane; Agier, Isabelle; Garikipati, Supriya; … - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

Poor women have complex financial lives. They borrow from a variety of sources. So far, however, research has focussed only on formal borrowing as a source of women’s empowerment. This study examines whether type of borrowing matters to women. We differentiate between ‘easy loans’ – that...

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Business Cooperatives as a social response to unemployment

Ashta, Arvind - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

Type of paper :Exploratory, descriptive, case studyObjectives: In the wake of the global crisis, the role of the financial markets is being questioned and new forms of social innovations focusing on stakeholder governance and cooperation are being experimented. This paper looks into one such...

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Women’s Access to Credit in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks

Szafarz, Ariane; Cozarenco, Anastasia - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

This paper compares the loans granted to male and female entrepreneurs by a French microfinance institution (MFI). The sample period is split in two: before and after the MFI implemented France's regulatory EUR 10,000 loan ceiling. In the first period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with...

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Gender Biases in Bank Lending: Lessons from Microcredit in France

Szafarz, Ariane; Cozarenco, Anastasia - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2015

The evidence on gender discrimination in lending remains controversial. To capture gender biases in banks’ loan allocations, we observe the impact on the applicants of a microfinance institution (MFI) and exploit the natural experiment of a regulatory change imposing a strict EUR 10,000 loan...

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