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Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal data set of some 50 Dutch startups. The results suggest a dynamic process between … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …
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We examine the effect of relational constructs, such as satisfaction, trust and commitment on relationship performance … performance. Our empirical results provide strong evidence of duration dependent effects of satisfaction and trust, but we find … only weak evidence of such effects on performance. …
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The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the …
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customers, and new market leaders. This paper examines the deviation among reviews of a technology’s performance and its …) from 1982 to 2007, the authors find that: (1) there exists vast deviation among reviews of technology performance leading … performance and, (4) both higher technology performance and a higher deviation affect sales positively, also when one controls for …
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means of revitalizing organizations to improve performance. Spurring entrepreneurial behavior and exploration within …
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To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in … policies in a specific company. In this way the paper broadens the present HRM and Performance debate by explicitly taking into …
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of several young and attractive males or females. The results show that when the supervisor was a female, the performance …
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Human resource management (HRM) does matter! Prior empirical research, summarized and classified in the work of Delery and Doty (1996), Guest (1997) and Boselie et al. (2000), suggests significant impact of HRM on the competitive advantage of organizations. The mainstream research on this topic...
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extent to which a firm's investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we … stakes of a particular category of investor and a firm's financial performance and investment behavior is highly …
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Why does one person actually succeed in starting a business, while a second gives up, and a third is still trying? To answer this question, a longitudinal study was set up in which 330 nascent entrepreneurs (people setting up a business) were followed over a one-year period. After one year, 47%...
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