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This paper reviews the empirical literature on the determinants of the choice by multinational enterprises between entering foreign countries through greenfields or acquisitions. We discuss and compare the main theoretical perspectives used, provide a detailed overview of the empirical findings,...
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working papers subsequent to detailed working paper review. Prior research has shown that errors in working papers are … detected in the review process; however, such detection rates only rarely exceed 50% of the seeded errors. Hence, measures that … or its client. We hypothesize that three factors affect the auditor’s willingness to report post detailed review …
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In designing of production systems, economic and social goals can be combined, if ergonomics is integrated into the design process. More than 50 years of ergonomics research and practice have resulted in a large number of ergonomics standards for designing physical and organizational work...
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …
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entrepreneurship with its potential to set the economy on a higher growth path by supplying the products which consumers need and want … can we expect to see entrepreneurs in China behaving like their counterparts in the advanced industrial economies of … environment are at the same time generating novel institutional arrangements in support of entrepreneurs' investments. We agree …
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We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their … start-up satisfaction. Our results identify a group of nascent entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start …-up because they did not choose to become entrepreneurs out of free will, but out of long-term unemployment or a lack of better …
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measures of female entrepreneurship: the number of female entrepreneurs and the share of women in the total number of … entrepreneurs. The first measure is used to investigate whether variables have an impact on entrepreneurship in general (influencing … of female entrepreneurs or the gender composition of entrepreneurship) to be able to select appropriate policy measures. …
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Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur … countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This led to the political mandate to promote entrepreneurship. Hence, a clear and … organized view is needed of what the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship are. The present contribution tries to …
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aspects of the recent scientific literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business, on the one hand, and … pay a penalty in terms of forgone growth. It also pays attention to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a new and …
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, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as their relevance for entrepreneurship. An occupational … compensating pull of entrepreneurship in countries with low uncertainty avoidance may have gained momentum in recent years. Third …
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