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Innovation and Business Growth through Corporate Venturing in Latin America: Analysis of Strategic Fit

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

Corporate venturing as a strategy for international business development has become significant in view of the process of globalization resulting into the free trade and business development opportunities for multinational companies. This study is based on empirical investigation through...

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing...

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Empirical Investigation of Autonomy and Motivation

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

I study the effect of workers' motivation on the firm's choice of how much autonomy employees should be given. The main hypothesis of the paper is that employers give autonomy to workers who are already especially motivated. The empirical work is based on data from Wave 1 of the Health and...

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CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A STRATEGIC AND STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Ferreira, João - EconWPA - 2005

Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to enhance the innovative abilities of their employees and, at the same time, increase corporate success through the creation of new corporate ventures. However, the creation of...

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ENTREPRENEURS' ATTITUDES, STRATEGY CHOICES, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE

Phan, Phillip H.; Butler, John E. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper focuses on how attitudes affect entrepreneur’s strategy selection at the organizational level. It also … entrepreneurs. The results indicate that entrepreneurs used different approaches to impart their values and beliefs to their firms …

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Corporate Governance and Management Succession in Family Businesses

Phan, Phillip; Butler, John E.; Lee, Soo Hoon - EconWPA - 2005

Family businesses carry the weight of economic wealth creation in most economies. In the U.S. alone, family businesses account for 80 to 90 percent of the 18-million business enterprises in the United States, and 50 percent of the employment and GNP. In many ways, the family business is...

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Part-Time Entrepreneurship and Wealth Effects: New Evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

Why do people become part-time entrepreneurs? Are they credit constrained? Previous studies on entrepreneurship do not … nascent entrepreneurs also hold regular wage jobs. I develop a model of entrepreneurial choice in which individuals decide not … entrepreneurs are credit constrained. I use a new and unique data set, which looks at how nascent entrepreneurs divide their time …

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Entrepreneuriat et croissance, une conjonction évidemment favorable ?

Dejardin, Marcus - EconWPA - 2003

économique. La première question s'intéresse à leurs rapports endogènes. Nous suggérons en particulier que si plus d'entrepreneurs …

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Entrepreneurial Innovation

Rigotti, Luca; Ryan, Matthew; Vaithianathan, Rhema - EconWPA - 2001

This paper constructs an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation where individuals differ in their attitude toward uncertainty. Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous. An entrepreneur, who owns residual profits, utilizes an uncertain technology and...

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Industry Choices and Social Interactions of Entrepreneurs: Identification by Residential Addresses

Huang, Rocco - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows that industry choices of entrepreneurs are determined by their social networks. The separation of … area: one squared-mile), we show that new generation of entrepreneurs are more likely to enter industries overrepresented … informational interactions, as proxied by greater geographic agglomeration of entrepreneurs. The median home- business distances in …

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