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Corporate Governance and Investments in Scandinavia - ownership concentration and dual-class equity structure

Eklund, Johan E. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Juridical-political theories suggest that legal origin (La Porta et al. (1997)) and political factors (Roe (2003)) matters for firm performance. In Scandinavia there are a number of legal practices, with common political roots, that impinge on the distribution of corporate control, which...

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Institutional Owners and the Return on Investments

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Eklund, Johan E.; Wiberg, Daniel - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Examining a large number of Swedish listed firms, this paper analyses how institutional owners affects the investment decisions and firm performance. During the last decades the ownership structure of Swedish firms has undergone dramatic changes: institutional and foreign investors have been...

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Public Enforcement of Securities Market Rules: Resource-based evidence from the Securities Exchange Commission

Lohse, Tim; Pascalau, Razvan; Thomann, Christian - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

We empirically investigate whether increases in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) budget have an effect on firms’ compliance behavior with securities market rules. Our study uses a dataset on the SEC’s resources and its enforcement actions over a period beginning shortly...

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CONSIDERATIONS ON UNIVERSITY ALLIANCES: MOTIVES, RISKS AND CHARACTERISTICS

Deiaco, Enrico; Melin, Göran - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

The main emphasis of this study has been to explore the phenomenon of creating alliances between universities. Alliances are a response to a hardened international competitive climate. An examination of ten alliances during the recent years is carried out, and the motives behind as well as the...

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Swedish Listed Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Spirit

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Palmberg, Johanna - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

entrepreneurship in the sense that there is an identifiable person that takes the uninsurable risk in the sense of Knight. This paper …

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The role of entrepreneurship in rising wealth and income inequality

Malm, Arvid; Sanandaji, Tino - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

behind the increase in top incomes. Furthermore, increasing returns to entrepreneurship may be an important yet little …

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Business regulation and red tape in the entrepreneurial economy

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

interrelationship between entrepreneurship and the quality of business regulations. The empirical findings indicate that there is a … positive relationship between entrepreneurship, and the quality of business regulations. …

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Labor mobility and entrepreneurship: Who do new firms employ?

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

Entrepreneurship is often claimed to be important for generating employment. However, the empirical evidence on the … relationship between entrepreneurship is not always convincing. Most of the studies that analyse the relationship between new firm …

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Creative Destruction and Productivity – entrepreneurship by type, sector and sequence

Andersson, Martin; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect … sectors appears to be more responsive to regional entrepreneurship, as compared to the productivity of manufacturing firms. …

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Determinants of entrepreneurship. Is it all about the individual or the region?

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

. Despite this fact many explanations to entrepreneurship only considers the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. This is …. In this pa¬per we illustrate empirically that variations in the rate of entrepreneurship are explained not only in terms …

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