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The profits and perils of passion in entrepreneurship : stoking the fires and banking the coals

Cardon, Melissa S.; Murnieks, Charles Y. - 2020

Contents: Introduction to passion in entrepreneurship -- 2. Passion of entrepreneurs: Conceptual underpinnings and distinctions -- 3. Different potential targets of entrepreneurial passion -- 4. The profits and perils that can arise from entrepreneurial passion -- 5. Stoking the fires of...

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Measuring organizational performance : metrics for entrepreneurship and strategic management research

Carton, Robert B. - 2006

There is great discussion but little consensus on the best measures of organizational performance. This book redresses this imbalance. Measuring Organizational Performance offers a framework with which to better understand the implications of selecting variables for use in both empirical studies...

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The Elgar companion to health economics

Jones, Andrew M. (contributor) - 2006

The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50...

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Corporate governance and financial performance : a study of German and UK initial public offerings

Goergen, Marc - 1998

This important book presents a new original study of the German and UK financial markets. It addresses the relationship between corporate governance, ownership and financial performance in German and UK firms floated during the 1980s. Marc Goergen uses detailed company micro-data to examine the...

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Competing values leadership : creating value in organizations

Cameron, Kim S. (contributor) - 2006

Creating value in a firm is an enormously complex endeavor. Yet, despite its complexity, value creation is the objective of every enterprise, every worker, and every leader. The Competing Values Framework can help leaders understand more deeply and act more effectively. In the first book to...

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Performance of the Chinese insurance industry under economic reforms

Yao, Shujie - 2010

The Chinese insurance industry has experienced rapid development during the past decade. This original book is the … first English language study in the literature to address the efficiency issue of the Chinese insurance sector, and presents …ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in …

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Insurance and risk management

Niehaus, Greg (contributor) - 2008

There is a broad range of literature on the economics of insurance and risk management. This timely publication … contains recent theoretical contributions to the economics of insurance and presents empirical tests and applications of the … theory to many different insurance markets. It also offers important insights into the factors influencing corporate risk …

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Banking and insurance in the new China : competition and the challenge of accession to the WTO

Chen, Jianxun; Shi, Huici - 2004

insurance - since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industries during … opportunities. The relationships between the market structure, behavior and performance of China's banking and insurance industries … of WTO accession on Chinese banking and insurance, and strategies for the prevention of future financial crises are …

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Fast growing firms in a slow growth economy : institutional conditions for innovation

Visintin, Francesca (contributor); … - 2016

Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage for SMEs growth / D. Lauto G. Pittino and F. Visintin -- Part I the context -- 2. Entrepreneurship and technological clusters. the influence of contextual factors on the birth...

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Universities and strategic knowledge creation : specialization and performance in Europe

Bonaccorsi, Andrea (contributor); Daraio, Cinzia (contributor) - 2007

Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of systematic quantitative evidence at the micro-level, with virtually all policy discussion based on country level statistics or case studies. This book redresses the balance by...

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