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Regional Growth Regimes Revisited - The Case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004
characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …
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A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship
Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of … various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete, focusing largely on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship …. However, destructive entrepre-neurship plays an important role in many, if not most, economies. This paper addresses the …
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Born Loca l: Two Avenues to Internationalization
Acs, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...
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An Empirical Relationship between Entrepreneurship and FDI. A Note.
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
relationshiop between the foreign direct investment [FDI] an total economy's entrepreneurship reward. This note is baded mainly on …
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Banking Entrepreneurship Differentials between Europe and Usa : A Note
Georgiou, Miltiades N.; Kyriazēs, Nikos K. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
The present paper refers to the field of "corporate convergence theory". A recent work on corporate convergence of Krishna et al. (2002) points out that there is little evidence that common standards in corporate fovernance have been implemented.Besides, in the same study (page 2) it is...
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Allocation and Productivity of Time in new Ventures of Female and Male Entrepreneurships
Verheul, Ingrid; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Adriaan R. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This paper investigates time allocation decisions in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs using a model that distinguishes between effects of preferences and productivity on the number of working hours...
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A Model of the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
The present paper deals with the distinction between the models of the managed and entrepreneurial economies. It explains why the model of the entrepreneurial economy may be a better frame of reference than the model of the managed economy in the contemporary, developed economies. This is done...
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State of Literature on Small to Medium-Size Enterprises and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Communities
Ács, Zoltán J.; Kallas, Kadri - 2007
Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - 2006
across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318828
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Financing High-Tech Growth: The Role of Debt or Equity
Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E. - 2004
Using a data set of the firms listed on the Neuer Markt in Germany, this paper demonstrates that venture backed firms differ from firms with other financial resources, especially debt. Thus, the results of this study provide evidence for the hypothesis that small and innovative firms are more...
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