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The Role of Banks in SME Finance
Norden, Norden, L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2015
__Abstract__ Banks play a crucial role for the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs represent a large fraction of all firms in many economies and contribute significantly to employment and growth. But, SMEs are more informationally opaque, more risky, more financially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185628
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Social Entrepreneurship and Performance: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk
Thurik, Roy; Hoogendoorn, Hoogendoorn, B.; van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2011
This study investigates if and in what way social entrepreneurs are hampered in turning their efforts into sustainable organizations. Using binary logit regressions and unique data containing approximately 26,000 individual-level data points for 36 countries, this study assesses the influences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731000
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Do Foreign Greenfields Outperform Foreign Acquisitions or Vice Versa? An Institutional Perspective
Slangen, Slangen, A.H.L.; Hennart, J-F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
Prior studies of the comparative performance of greenfields and acquisitions have advanced competing arguments, with some arguing that greenfields should outperform acquisitions because acquisitions are costlier to integrate, and others that acquisitions should outperform greenfields because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837671
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Making Sense of Climate Change: How to Avoid the Next Big Flood
Whiteman, Whiteman, G.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2011
Over the last two decades, management studies on sustainability have grown considerably, including a recent surge of … year on record, making it the warmest decade since 1880. In certain places (like Australia and the Arctic), the impacts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149188
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Business Strategies for Transitions towards Sustainable Systems
Bakel, Bakel, J.C.; Loorbach, Loorbach, D.A.; Whiteman, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
This paper develops a strategic perspective for business to address persistent sustainability issues by contributing to … the innovation of societal systems. Sustainability issues at the level of societal sectors or domains cannot be addressed … governance to influence the direction and speed of structural changes towards sustainability – and the activities of two firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731309
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Societal Innovation: between dream and reality lies complexity
Rotmans, Rotmans, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005
of environment, sustainability, governance, transitions and system innovations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837390
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Boards of Directors’ Contribution to Strategy: A Literature Review and Research Agenda
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Pugliese, Pugliese, A.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
Manuscript Type: Literature review. Research Question/Issue: Over the last four decades, research on the relationship between boards of directors and strategy has proliferated. Yet to date there is little theoretical and empirical agreement regarding the question of how boards of directors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731079
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A Process Model of Locational Change in Entrepreneurial Firms: An Evolutionary Perspective
Stam, Stam, F.C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
How do changes in the spatial organization of entrepreneurial firms come about? This paper provides a conceptualisation of the process of locational change. A process model of locational change is constructed on the basis of an empirical study of 109 locational events during the life course of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731347
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On the Evolution of Product Portfolio Coherence of Cooperatives versus Corporations: An Agent-Based Analysis of the Single Origin Constraint
Hendrikse, Hendrikse, G.W.J.; Smit, Smit, R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Agent-based methodology is adopted to analyze the relationship between governance structure and the evolution of product portfolio. A corporation and a cooperative are distinguished by the single origin constraint. The single origin constraint entails that the product requiring the inputs of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731041
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Ergonomics Contributions to Company Strategies
Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731140