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Initial luck, status-seeking and snowballs lead to corporate success and failure
Glazer, Amihai (contributor); Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor) - 2004
Corporate success often resembles a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and status-seeking by workers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002526021
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To be or not to be : the entrepreneur in neo-Schumpeterian growth theory
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Karlsson, Johan - 2022
); innovation returns are modeled as following an ex ante known probability distribution. By assuming that innovation outcomes are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412825
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Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance of newborn firms in developing countries
Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...
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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor);  … - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms’ incentives to innovate and competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571666
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Learning from Latin America’s experience : Europe’s failure in the “Lisbon process”
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2010
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and basic human needs satisfaction, gender justice, redistribution, growth and employment) on a global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941467
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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
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Jobless growth through creative destruction: Ireland's industrial development path 1972 - 2003
Li, Qi (contributor); Walsh, Patrick Paul (contributor);  … - 2007
We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand "jobless" growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646690
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Employment protection, product market competition and growth
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
It is commonly argued that labor market institutions such as employment protection worsen an economy's performance and particularly so, if product markets become more competitive. Empirical evidence, however, has difficulties to detect a robust negative correlation between employment protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412718
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Collective dismissal cost, product market competition and innovation
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Produce or speculate? : asset bubbles, occupational choice and efficiency
Cahuc, Pierre; Challe, Edouard - 2009
, thereby causing rational bubbles to lose their efficiency properties. Moreover, if speculation can be carried out by skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926432