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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries : company characteristics, survival and innovative performance

Müller, Elisabeth - 2011

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of … native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on …. Immigrant entrepreneurs are less than half as likely to found a company in a knowledge-intensive industry as native …

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Ability matching and survival of start-ups

Müller, Bettina - 2009

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...

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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014 - Version: 1 October 2014

The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

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The productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms

Murmann, Martin - 2017

Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young...

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The contribution of international R&D to firm profitability

Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - 2011

The internationalisation of corporate R&D opens up the chances to participate in international knowledge sharing. This increasingly motivates firms to accelerate the pace and extent of their international R&D activities in order to enhance innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and...

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Internationalisation of high-tech start-ups and fast growth-evidence for UK and Germany

Bürgel, Oliver; Fier, Andreas; Licht, Georg; Murray, … - 2000

technological sophistication of products and the experience of entrepreneurs has a positive impact on growth. In addition, intense …

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Examining relational and resource influences on the performance of border region SMEs

Francis, John; Mukherji, Ananda; Mukherji, Jyotsna - In: International business review : the official journal of … 18 (2009) 4, pp. 331-343

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Disparate association between alliance social capital and the global pharmaceutical firm's performance

Malik, Tariq - In: International business review : the official journal of … 21 (2012) 6, pp. 1017-1028

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Upstream internationalization process : roles of social capital in creating exploratory capability and market performance

Lew, Yong Kyu; Sinkovics, Rudolf R.; Kuivalainen, Olli - In: International business review : the official journal of … 22 (2013) 6, pp. 1101-1120

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Independent directors' human and social capital, firm internationalization and performance implications : an integrated agency-resource dependence view

Chen, Hsiang-Lan; Hsu, Wen-Tsung; Chang, Chiao-yi - In: International business review : the official journal of … 25 (2016) 4, pp. 859-871

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