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world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
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There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...
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non-MNEs, and purely domestic firms before foreign takeover. The results, controlling for possible endogeneity of the … horizontal or vertical. We also find robust positive employment growth effects only for exporters, and only if the takeover is …
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It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...
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entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a … large and rich French data set, we find that small firm experience increases the likelihood for business takeover, whereas …
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Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? And how do the determinants of survival differ between the two entry modes? Using a large French...
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entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. business takeover) of hybrid entrepreneurs. Our study … female, having worker experience, and having received social benefits are linked to business takeover. With these results … takeover, which is of high interest, given the growing number of businesses seeking outside successors …
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Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...
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companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S. government, the analysis used to evaluate their request, and the …
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