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expresses trust in management coincide with an improved financial situation if not higher productivity growth. Mutual distrust …
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This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management …'s assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially … potential endogeneity of employee trust is taken into account, an improved measure is constructed from the discrepancy or …
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We investigate the role of mutual trust in long-term vertical relationships involving trades of complex goods. High … complexity is associated with high contract incompleteness and hence the increased relevance of trust-based relational contracts …. Contrary to expectations, we find that changes in trust do not impact the quality of highly complex objects. Instead, higher …
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In this study, we investigate whether and to what extent community managers in online collaborative communities can stimulate crowd activities through their engagement. Using a novel data set of 22 large online idea crowdsourcing campaigns, we find that active engagement of community managers...
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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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In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...
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We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of...
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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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data from a survey focusing on these, we show that more trust, the belief that the trading partner acts to maintain the …
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