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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260930
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108809
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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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Microfoundations of macroeconomics. Post-Keynesian contributions on the theory of the firm
Canale, Rosaria Rita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Looking through contributions about microeconomic theory, from classics to modern theory, it is possible to identify various attitudes on the role that firms play in the market. To simplify the existing multiplicity of opinion, two distinct positions can be recognized: 1) the first one considers...
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Trade in Tasks and the Organization of Firms
Marin, Dalia; Schymik, Jan; Tarasov, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We incorporate trade in tasks à la Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) into a small open economy version of the theory of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to...
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Use and Abuse of Authority
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...
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Parchment, guns, and the problem of governance
Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Holian, Matthew J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The genuine problem of governance is one that pays equal attention to both incentive and knowledge issues in private and public contexts. This work brings together Austrian, Public Choice and theory of the firm insights to address such problem. By taking into account incentives and knowledge, it...
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