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capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal … entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of … valuable human capital for legal enterprising. …
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Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...
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We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the …
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We characterize the relation between corporate asset structure and capital structure by exploiting variation in the … buildings). Consistent with a credit supply-side view of capital structure, we find that asset redeployability is a particularly … capital structure models that are based on contract incompleteness and limited enforceability. It does so characterizing a …
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capital structure choice. Flexibility is the ability to make decisions that one thinks are best even when others disagree. The … now-familiar debt tax shield, and the firm’s capital structure is the consequence of a sequence of past security …-issuance choices. The strongest implication of this theory of capital structure evolution is that optimal capital structure is …
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This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...
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This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse two types of investment, i.e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies, using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch firms in 1997. We estimate several models...
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This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
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Identification of the entrepreneur's economic function has engaged economists for more than 200 years. In this paper we address the issue of entrepreneurship in two distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economics and b) as it develops in the transitional context....
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managerial experience, new venture start-up capital requirements and risk promote the takeover mode. Entrepreneurs whose parents …
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