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Entrepreneuriat et croissance, une conjonction évidemment favorable ?
Dejardin, Marcus - EconWPA - 2003
L'article présente brièvement deux questions fondamentales relatives aux liens entre l'entrepreneuriat et la croissance économique. La première question s'intéresse à leurs rapports endogènes. Nous suggérons en particulier que si plus d'entrepreneurs peut signifier plus de croissance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556093
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Influence of Brand Name in Variety Seeking Behavior of Consumers: An Empirical Analysis
Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005
The variety-seeking behavior and the brand choice among the consumers have been discussed extensively in the previous research contributions from the stochastic point of view. This study argues that although consumers are seeking novelty and unexpectedness in a brand that they have not bought...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561847
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413242
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Competitive Advantages of the Beira Interior (Portugal): A TOWS Approach
Ferreira, Joao; Leitao, Joao; Raposo, Mario - EconWPA - 2005
The formulation of a competitive strategy implies an extended understanding, in terms of the industrial structures, of the mains fields where the nations compete and those structures evolve. The environmental conditions of a region, and of its industries, determine both the generic strategies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118851
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Trust and Reciprocity in Incentive Contracting
Rigdon, Mary - EconWPA - 2005
Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556679
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: An Obvious Conjunction?
DEJARDIN, Marcus - EconWPA - 2001
This paper consists of an introductory survey of two fundamental questions regarding the link between entrepreneurship … and economic growth. The first one deals with the endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. In … particular, we suggest that, while more entrepreneurship could mean more economic growth, economic growth in turn could affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118761
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Innovation and Business Growth through Corporate Venturing in Latin America: Analysis of Strategic Fit
Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005
autonomy and less economic dependency with their parent ventures for leading success and this finding make an intuitive sense. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076887
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077053
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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 … health, retirement, and aging. The HRS provides unique information on individual's motives and autonomy on the job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125716
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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 … corporate entrepreneurship. They examined the effect of a firm’s strategy, organisation and external environment. It appears … that the environment plays a profound role is influencing corporate entrepreneurship whereas there is consensus that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134457