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Financial Information for Decision Making: An Alternative Small Firm Perspective

Gibson, Brian - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 1 (1992) 3, pp. 221-232

Successful decision making in small firms requires the availability of financial information and its deployment in a … irregular use of financial information in small firm decision contexts. Rather than seeking to justify these departures within … provide an appropriate framework for the study of small firms. Financial information in this alternative framework is likely …

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Research in Small-Firm Entrepreneurial Finance: A Note on Developing a Paradigm

Petty, J. William - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 1 (1991) 1, pp. 88-90

There is an increased interest in small companies and entrepreneurship among academicians and policy makers. The melting of the cold war and the collapse of the socialist economies of the Soviet bloc, in combination with the interest of the affected countries in imitating some form of...

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Small Business Capital Structure Choice

Schnabel, Jacques A. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 2 (1992) 1, pp. 13-21

A simple single-period model of entrepreneurial capital structure choice under conditions of informational asymmetry is developed. The uncertain terminal cash flow generated by a business venture is assumed to depend on both the amount of effort provided by the entrepreneur and the quality of...

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Financing the Small Firm Start-Up: Determinants of Debt Use

Scherr, Frederick C.; Sugrue, Timothy F.; Ward, Janice B. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 3 (1993) 1, pp. 17-36

While academic research concerning capital structure of large corporations has been abundant in the finance literature, studies of small firms have been somewhat less common, and investigation of capital structure at origin (start-up) has been virtually nil. In this paper we present empirical...

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Innovation in Large and Small Firms

Arrow, Kenneth J. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 2 (1993) 2, pp. 111-124

This essay is intended to begin the elaboration of a theme: the interaction between the observed sizes of firms and their internal decision making procedures. This theme is a major one in the symphony of entrepreneurial activity. The entrepreneur, as the maker and changer of economic and...

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Capital Structure and Small Growth Firms

Norton, Edgar - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 1 (1991) 2, pp. 161-177

, information asymmetries) a survey was designed in an attempt to gauge the relevance of several theories of capital structure. The …. Implications arising from agency cost, information asymmetry, and signaling theory apparently have little impact on capital …

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Control Preference and Financial Attributes: Founders as CEOs in Small, Publicly Traded Firms

Lane, William R.; Jameson, Mel - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 3 (1993) 1, pp. 43-62

Existing theories of the firm are silent with respect to cross-sectional differences in performance or characteristics of firms attributable to different types of managers. We hypothesize that the investment, financing and dividend decisions of founders differ systematically from those of...

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Participation Financing as a Solution to the Agency Problem of Perk Consumption in Small Firms

Yu, Hua - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 3 (1994) 3, pp. 215-227

growth or high levels of information asymmetry and therefore high monitoring costs. …

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Marginal Returns in Small and Large Companies

Anderson, Ronald F.; Newbould, Gerald D. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 1 (1991) 2, pp. 115-124

Previous studies of large versus small company performance, though frequent, have not produced a clear answer as to whether large companies outperform small companies or vice versa. This article highlights retentions - the fact that different companies have different dividend policies —as a...

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An Empirical Investigation of the Cash Conversion Cycle of Small Business Firms

Lyroudi, Katerina; McCarty, Dan - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 2 (1993) 2, pp. 139-161

The purpose of this study is to examine the cash conversion cycle as an indicator of the company’s liquidity, to determine the relationship of the cash conversion cycle with the current and the quick ratios and with its component variables, and to investigate the implications of the cash...

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