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Lai, Richard Kum-yew - EconWPA - 2005

Private equity funds of funds (FOFs) have become big business. Today, FOFs form 14% of new money raised. I test six explanations for the rise of FOFs. First, I find that FOFs do not generally deliver superior returns. They do, however, do well enough for the limited partners (LPs) that hire...

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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 …

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INNOVATION AND VENTURE CAPITAL EXITS

SCHWIENBACHER, Armin - EconWPA - 2001

effects on the optimal exit strategy and on the financial contract. Going public can be more profitable than a trade sale (i … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive … the optimal financing strategy under different allocations of control rights and market power. The use of an optimal mix …

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Investor protection and business creation

Hyytinen, Ari; Takalo, Tuomas - EconWPA - 2004

We study the effects of investor protection on the availability of external finance, entrepreneurship, and creation of … surplus between entrepreneurs and financiers. The results indicate that anything that increases (decreases) entrepreneurship …

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Broadcasting

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

In 1999, the Commonwealth Government referred the Broadcasting Services Act and related legislation to the Productivity Commission for inquiry and report within twelve months. The inquiry stems from the Government’s commitment under the Competition Principles Agreement to review legislation...

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Corporate behaviour and competitive forces

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

The purpose of this article is to propose a typology of the economic behaviour of French industrial companies in 1993 based on a sample of more than 7,000 companies participating in the Balance Sheet Data Centre of the Banque de France. The objective is therefore to explain how productivity and...

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Parcerias Estratégicas da Banca Portuguesa em Portais Digitais

Leitão, João; Osório, Carlos; Gomes, Daniela - EconWPA - 2002

, Networks, Strategy, Banking. …

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An e-Business Model Ontology for Modeling e-Business

Osterwalder, Alexander; Pigneur, Yves - EconWPA - 2002

After explaining why business executives and academics should consider thinking about a rigorous approach to e-business models, we introduce a new e-Business Model Ontology. Using the concept of business models can help companies understand, communicate and share, change, measure, simulate and...

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CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A STRATEGIC AND STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Ferreira, João - EconWPA - 2005

corporate entrepreneurship. They examined the effect of a firm’s strategy, organisation and external environment. It appears …Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to … that the environment plays a profound role is influencing corporate entrepreneurship whereas there is consensus that the …

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CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A STRATEGIC AND STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Ferreira, Joao - EconWPA - 2005

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