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Innovation strategies of entrepreneurs are mapped with growth and performance of their firms in this study. Findings of … innovation strategies experienced more employment growth, higher profitability, and better sales dynamics than those that adopted … occasional innovation approach. Market growth of continuous innovating firms realized faster pace than other type of firms …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or …
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Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
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improve our understanding of how governance structures influence entrepreneurship and innovation it is instructive to consider …Governance is often treated as a 'black box' explanation for unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship. In order to … game of informal clientelism and formal programmatic competition shapes entrepreneurship. In this paper I provide an …
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This paper compares the key drivers of Sino-foreign alliance formation from the perspective of both Chinese and Western alliance partners. Our results indicate that Chinese companies enter into alliances with Western companies mainly to get accesses to international markets and to develop their...
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In this paper we aim to investigate the key drivers of international alliance formation from the perspective of Chinese companies. Our results indicate that Chinese companies enter into alliances with Western companies mainly to get accesses to international markets and to develop their...
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) how to deal with jobless growth in manufacturing, (vii) creating adequate systems of financial intermediation, and (viii …
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We provide a growth model with imported resources and foreign debt accumulation providing the basis for two questions … and regression equations. 1) Under what conditions do growth rates of per capita income remain positive if imported inputs … following results. Oil price growth rates have only a marginal impact on those of GDP per capita as long as they exceed …
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This paper provides an analytic review of selected contributions to the study of institutions and economic growth. We … review the contributions to the study of institutional determinants of long-run growth by Engerman and Sokoloff, and Acemoglu … steps towards bridging the gap between the study of long-run and short-run growth performances. In addition, we review two …
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In this paper we show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region we … speed up growth. The results also show a strong positive effect of reductions in the cost of making new connections. This … has a significant impact on both the steady state growth rate and on transitional growth, while significantly reducing the …
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