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Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy
Block, Jörn; Kohn, Karsten; Miller, Danny; Ullrich, Katrin - 2014
, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship. …
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Entrepreneurship Is dangerously obsessed with growth and incompatible with current visions of a post-growth society
Naudé, Wim - 2024
Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of …. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are exposed as oxymorons. Given the dangers and the impossibility of perpetual … growth, the paper then tries to answer the question of what role entrepreneurship could play in a post-growth society or in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584338
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"Make-or-buy" of peripheral services in manufacturing : evidence from Spanish plant-level data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2013
In this paper we empirically explore the "make-or-buy" decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants distributed in all manufacturing industries in Spain. In particular, survey respondents are asked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683002
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The home market shadow
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2005
The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the newʺ theory of international trade, but it is uncertain whether this effect survives if one moves beyond the simplifying setup with only two countries. We present a three-country version of the seminal model by Krugman (1980) and...
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Competitive strategy, performance appraisal and firm results
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2016
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502553
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival
Brown, J. David (contributor);  … - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
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The rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints
Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510506
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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review
Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015
general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309009
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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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Entering and leaving self-employment : a panel data analysis for 12 developing countries
Cho, Yoonyoung; Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose M. - 2015
This paper examines the determinants of labor market transitions into and out of self-employment (own-account work and employer), using panel data from 12 developing countries in multiple regions. Despite cross-country heterogeneity, a few consistent patterns emerge. Entering the labor market...
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