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Ownership Structure, Investment Behavior and Firm Performance in Japanese Manufacturing Industries
Gedajlovic, E.R.; Yoshikawa, T.; Hashimoto, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001
Using data spanning the 1996-1998 fiscal years of 247 of Japan's largest manufacturers, we empirically evaluate the extent to which a firm's investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we examine six distinct categories of Japanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288569
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Capital Flight and Investment Dynamics in Nigeria: A Time Series Analysis (1970-2006)
Adesoye, A. Bolaji; Maku, Olukayode E.; Atanda, Akinwande A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study critically examines the implications of capital flight on investment growth in Nigeria between 1970 and 2006, because of the consequential effect it has on economic growth. The time series data properties incorporated were examined using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397182
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Energy Saving by Firms: Decision-Making, Barriers and Policies
Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
Promoting investments in energy saving technologies is an important means for achieving environmental goals. Unfortunately, the empirical evidence on success conditions of policies is scarce. Based on a survey among Dutch firms, this paper sets out to identify the factors that determine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137331
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Determinants of Individual Investor Behaviour: An Orthogonal Linear Transformation Approach
Chandra, Abhijeet; Kumar, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Expected utility theory views the individual investment decision as a tradeoff between immediate consumption and deferred consumption. But individuals do not always prefer according to the classical theory of economics. Recent studies on individual investor behavior have shown that they do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873558
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Equity-based Financial Slack and New Venture Performance: Evidence from matched single-founder ventures
Morgan, Horatio M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines whether equity-based financial slack in the form of relatively high levels of founding equity will systematically hurt new venture performance. Drawing on data on 445 single-founder new ventures over the period 2004-2007, it uses the propensity score matching method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107944
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Equity-based Financial Slack and New Venture Performance: Evidence from matched single-founder ventures
Morgan, Horatio M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines whether equity-based financial slack in the form of relatively high levels of founding equity will systematically hurt new venture performance. Drawing on data on 445 single-founder new ventures over the period 2004-2007, it uses the propensity score matching method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110946
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Contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship : frontiers in european entrepreneurship research
Xheneti, Mirela (ed.); Costa, Silvia (ed.);  … - 2023
"The contextual turn in the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars to integrate into their research … the multifaceted contexts in which entrepreneurship is embedded. This insightful book explores the different spatial …, social, digital, institutional and policy contexts for entrepreneurship and investigates their relevance for entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372522
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The truth about entrepreneurship : policy making and business creation
Reynolds, Paul Davidson - 2020
Important Option for the Desperate -- 11. New Firms: Change Agents Hiding in Plain Sight -- Appendix A Global Entrepreneurship …"Policy makers give a lot of attention to business creation and entrepreneurship, but they do not have a good resource … for understanding The Truth about Entrepreneurship. The extensive media coverage of Wall Street entrepreneurship provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416731
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Entrepreneurship as organizing : selected papers of William B. Gartner
Gartner, William B. - 2016
an emerging industry -- 8. What are we talking about when we talk about entrepreneurship? -- 9. Acting as if … to entrepreneurship scholarship -- 18. Entrepreneurial narrative and a science of the imagination -- 19. Entrepreneurship …This book draws together William B. Gartner's key contributions to entrepreneurship research over the past 25 years. An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419792
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Handbook of measures for international entrepreneurship research : multi-item scales crossing disciplines and contexts
Coviello, Nicole (contributor);  … - 2016
The Handbook of Measures for International Entrepreneurship Research is a user-friendly collection of multi …-item measures developed and used in the research of international entrepreneurship and important areas related to it: international … business, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategy, and innovation. Editors Nicole Coviello and Helena Yli-Renko carefully …
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