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Dezvoltarea şi perfecţionarea relaţiei inovaţie – capital intelectual – cerinţă a performanţei organizaţionale în firmele româneşti
Rizea; Carmen, Ionela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In a knowledge economy, innovation is the competitiveness key and the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in social systems is the result of collaboration between individuals and communities of interest. Managers can not measure the innovative capacity of the organization, but they may...
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
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Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...
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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human … depth analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship in Italy, thus accounting for the role that variables like the …
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Why do Employees Leave Their Jobs for Self-Employment? – The Impact of Entrepreneurial Working Conditions in Small Firms
Werner, Arndt; Moog, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Based on the finding that entrepreneurs who found new firms tend to work as employees of small rather than large firms prior to start-up, we test how different working conditions, which enhance entrepreneurial learning, affect their decision to become entrepreneurs when moderated by firm size....
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The Culture of Entrepreneurship
Chakraborty, Shankha; Thompson, Jon; Yehoue, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We study the cultural process through which a society inculcates an entrepreneurial spirit. People work for a guaranteed wage or operate a firm whose return depends on business expertise. The latter is culturally acquired, within the family or outside, and people may choose an occupation...
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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...
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Embodied human capital unemployment
Kumaraku, Klajdi; Naqvi, Nadeem; Rexhepi, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Adam Smith (1776) devoted the first three chapters to the division of labor in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This process, carried far enough, eventually results in a divergence between the distributions of supplies and demands of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025275
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Will India become a world economy power?
Incaltarau, Cristian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
India's economic rise during the last decades has surprised most of the economists, including the Nobel Laureate Paul … Krugman. Which are the ingredients of such an economic roadmap and why hasn’t India's economy boosted along with those of the … "Asian tigers" during the 80s or later, with China’s economy? Once India became an important economic player, it can no …
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The development of intangible assets through the cohesion policy
Roth, Anne-Marie Monika; Popescu (Stingaciu), Ana-Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Intangible assets in general and intellectual capital in particular are important to both society and organizations. It can be a source of competitive advantage for business and stimulate innovation that leads to wealth generation. Technological revolutions, the rise of the knowledge-based...
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