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Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …
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The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a …
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A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth, distinguishing firms by size and "health". The idea is...
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The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
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for a set of firm-level characteristics such as ownership structure, financial performance, firm size, and age. The …
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, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women …
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This paper investigates how access to finance and skilled workforce endowments affect the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly simultaneously. For this purpose, a Multinomial Logit model is...
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Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and explanations for their success. We find that …
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Today, start-ups often obtain financing via the Internet through many small contributions of non-sophisticated investors. Yet little is known about whether these start-ups can ultimately build enduring businesses. In this paper, we hand-collected data from 38 different equity crowdfunding (ECF)...
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This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management … employee representative being favored over that of management as less subject to feedback from performance. Although the … measures are associated with improved establishment performance. However, there is no suggestion from specifications using the …
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