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Evolution, Economic Competence, and the Market for Corporate Control

Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

To assess the merits of the market for corporate control, this paper examines two processes which standard analysis does not study: the allocation of economic competence and the evolution of organizational structures. Economic competence is seen to be an unusual scarce resource embodied in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684539

How Do New Technologies Fare under Different Institutional Rules?

Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684421

The Dynamics of Supply and Economic Growth: How Industrial Knowledge Accumulation Drives a Path Dependent Economic Process

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684531

The Creation of the EC Internal Market and Its Effects on the Competitiveness of Producers in Other Industrial Economies

Eliasson, Gunnar; Lundberg, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818474

Billionaires

Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is enormous: billionaires. We explore the relationship...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399313

Entrepreneurship and Second-best Institutions: Going Beyond Baumol’s Typology

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper reconsiders the predominant typology pioneered by Baumol (1990) between productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969817

Financing from Family and Friends

Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

The constraint on informal finance is commonly taken to be high costs and limited supply. But the majority of informal investors – family and friends – is often willing to supply funds at negative returns, and yet many borrowers tap family and friends only as a last resort. We explain this...

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The Economics of Bounded Rationality, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Evolution

Day, Richard H. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

Bounded rationality provides a fundamental economic explanation for non-rational modes of behavior. These non-rational modes underlie both the erratic perturbations of entrepreneurship and the systematic waves of diffusion they initiate which in turn guarantee that the economy operates out of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019055

The International Firm: A Vehicle for Overcoming Barriers to Trade and a Global Intelligence Organization Diffusing the Notion of a Nation

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

that economies of scale associated with various knowledge inputs have made it possible for firms to grow large through … mobile carriers of industrial knowledge embodied in teams of humans. With barriers to trade and factor movements further … locus of the business organization to the markets where the most advanced industrial knowledge is being exhibited in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019068

Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage, Complex Goods and Organizational Choice

Ferguson, Shon; Formai, Sara - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

The theory of the firm suggests that firms can respond to poor contract enforcement by vertically integrating their production process. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms' integration opportunities affect the way institutions determine international trade patterns. We find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251249