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Can street entrepreneurs be Schumpeterian entrepreneurs? The case of food trucks as family firms in an emerging country
Matzembacher, Daniele Eckert; Leite Gonzales, Rogério; … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 9 (2019) 6, pp. 1-24
characterize entrepreneurship, its motivations, knowledge and capacity for innovation. A participant observation was carried out … Schumpeterian condition. This paper advances in theoretical knowledge by identifying that the Schumpeterian innovation of this … in places in which knowledge is disseminated as innovation. …
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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research
Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - 2008
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294455
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The impact of R&D activities on exports of German business services enterprises: First evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294481
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Financial constraints for investors and the speed of adaptation: Are innovators special?
von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2004
?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … self-selected on the basis of their being able to overcome the special difficulties of financing innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295647
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Buyer Power and Innovation of Quality Products: Empirical Evidence from the German Food Sector.
Weiss, Christoph R.; Wittkopp, Antje - 2003
power affects food manufacturing firms incentives to invest in innovation of high quality food products. On the basis of a … Germany. Results of multinomial logit model show a moderate and negative impact of retailer market power on innovation of … seem to more effectively resist retailer market power in product innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297135
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Evaluating the Impacts of Subsidies on Innovation Activities in Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Radić, Dubravko - 2005
market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …
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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2005
This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297651
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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