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Imitation or innovation to enhance the performance: an empirical investigation of 258 Chinese firms
Liu, Dawei - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 12 (2011) 4, pp. 377-395
This paper is focused on the factors which determined the adoption of innovation or imitation strategies on firm performance in seven different industries in China. Firstly, we delineate and distinguish the concepts of innovation and imitation. Secondly, using the structural equation modelling...
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Mobility norms, risk aversion, and career satisfaction of Chinese employees
Loi, Raymond; Ngo, Hang-Yue - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 27 (2010) 2, pp. 237-255
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Dissertation abstract: The influence of culture on economic behavior with applications to food and the environment
Ehmke, Mariah - In: Experimental Economics 9 (2006) 2, pp. 167-168
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Entrepreneurial activity and regional development: an introduction to this special issue
Guerrero, Maribel; Peña-Legazkue, Peña-Legazkue , Iñaki - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 26, pp. 05-15
have analyzed the complicated endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth, but these studies have …
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Social responsibility of the state and business as a factor of competitiveness and economic growth
Fylyppova Iryna H.; Sumtsov Viktor H. - In: The Problems of Economy (2014) 1, pp. 163-172
prospects of economic growth. The authors proceed from three quite evident assumptions: first - development of entrepreneurship … influence of social factors upon development of entrepreneurship, competitiveness and economic growth, the authors reveal …
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Sex Imbalance, Marriage Competition, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from rural China
Yuan, Yan; Rong, Zhao; Xu, Lihe - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
It is well acknowledged that the entrepreneurship is important to economic development. In this paper, we suggest a … gender-related determinant of entrepreneurship, local sex imbalance. Using a 2009 rural finance survey, we examine how this …
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PROSPECTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO THE CHALLENGE OF JOB CREATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
MAHADEA, DARMA - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 17 (2012) 04, pp. 1250020-1
Entrepreneurship is critical to job creation and economic growth. Unemployment in South Africa is presently at about 25 … challenge. Entrepreneurship, through the creation of new ventures and expansion of business firms, can make a difference to … the entrepreneurial environmental conditions in South Africa and then examines how entrepreneurship can make a difference …
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UNDERLYING LOGICS THAT TRANSFORM SURVIVAL OR SUBSISTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUSTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
HE, XIAOHONG; CHI, RENYONG - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350018-1
survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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