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Debt financing among native- and immigrant-owned firms: empirical evidence from Swedish small business at start up stage

Yazdanfar, Darush; Abbasian, Saeid - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 422-434

This paper provides evidence on ethnic differences in bank debt financing among small Swedish firms at the start-up stage. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of small firms consisting of 2,814 native- and immigrant-owned firms for year 2008. The method of binary logistic...

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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...

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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance

Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....

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Entrepreneurship and Role Models

Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...

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Entrepreneurship and Role Models

Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper led to the publication in the Journal of Economic Psychology 2012, 33(2), 410-424. In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have...

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Bank shares restore under recent industry bailouts

Yiannaki, Simona Mihai - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 6 (2010) 4, pp. 336-349

for bargains from bailout banks, get more knowledge about the issue and still harvest their existing investments …

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'E-banking' initiatives in Indian banks – a case of business process reengineering (BPR) implementation

Datta, Saroj K.; Kundu, Sukanya - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 2, pp. 174-191

The intention of the paper is to find out whether e-banking initiatives in Indian public sector banks (PSBs) can be …. The study is based on secondary data on selected Indian public and private sector banks. The research shows that there is … process is higher than that of the partially computerised banks and banks following traditional mode of operation. The …

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Perceived value as a basis for shaping the offer of service provider: cases from UK and Croatia

Pandza, Irena; Vignali, Claudio - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 6 (2010) 4, pp. 263-275

According to the representative studies higher level of customers' perceived value leads to higher level of customer satisfaction, greater level of customer loyalty and to a greater success of organisation. Due to this, service providers have to recognize all important factors of customers'...

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