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Business services outsourcing and economic growth: Evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291838
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International service transactions: Is time a trade barrier in a connected world?
Dettmer, Bianka - 2010
The firms' international fragmentation of production has recently widened its focus from outsourcing of intermediates to off-shoring of business services such as software program development and international call centre networks. Although a large number of business services are intangible and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281652
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Entrepreneurial ecosystems: A dynamic lifecycle model
Cantner, Uwe; Cunningham, James; Lehmann, Erik; Menter, … - 2019
The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems has been used as a framework to explain entrepreneurial activities within regions and industrial sectors. Despite the usefulness of this approach, the concept is under-theorized, especially with regard to the evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems. The...
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International service transactions: Is time a trade barrier in a connected world?
Dettmer, Bianka - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The firms' international fragmentation of production has recently widened its focus from outsourcing of intermediates to off-shoring of business services such as software program development and international call centre networks. Although a large number of business services are intangible and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008783579
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Business services outsourcing and economic growth: Evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568848
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Smart capital in German start-ups: an empirical analysis
Schäfer, Dorothea; Schilder, Dirk - 2007
It is still an open question what kind of smart capital relational investors actually supply. We divide smart capital into several components and conduct a survey among 85 German suppliers of start-up finance. The results show that the degree of "smartness" is determined by the financial product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263790
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The European Union's service directive: Contrasting ex ante estimates with empirical evidence
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
One of the top priorities to improve the European Union's growth performance is the creation ofsingle market for services. The directive on services adopted by the Parliament and the Council by the end of 2006 aims at removing barriers to the free movement of service providers on the internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291830
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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291817
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291827
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How much of a socialist legacy? The reemergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Rusakova, Alina; … - 2012
The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291841