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Free Trade, Business Strategy and Globalization

Reid, Gavin C - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 2000

This paper links the economist's analysis of free trade with the business strategist's analysis of the forces behind the globalization of competition. It argues that, although the drive to globalization may seem different from the seeking of superior outcomes in competitive markets, this may be...

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Dynamics of Small Business Financial Structure

Reid, Gavin C - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1997

A dynamic theory of the small firm is expounded, assuming entrepreneurs maximise business value over a finite time horizon. Its predicted trajectories for key financial variables depend on which of debt and equity are cheaper. The predictions are compared with empirical evidence constructed from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671114

Information System Development in the Small Firm

Reid, Gavin C - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 2000

This paper argues that the informational requirements for good decision making in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are complex and adaptive. It identifies the basic information needs of the SME, and considers how information is used to guide decisions. It argues that accounting...

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Accounting for Risk: developing a new research agenda for risk appraisal in high-technology ventures

Reid, Gavin C; Smith, Julia A - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1999

This work concerns the development of new methods of accounting for risk in high-technology ventures. The paper enquires into attitudes to risk and skills at risk management, in the relationship between high-technology firms and their venture capital backers. The basic prescription behind the...

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New Business, New Life; A Perspective on Business and Economics, with Ilustrations from Small Business Inception

Reid, Gavin C - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1998

The theme of this paper is developed in three parts. The first is concerned with methodology. The case is argued for a 'grounded' approach to the analysis of business economics. The second is concerned with intellectual history. It argues that the great economists, such as Smith, used this...

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Capital Structure at Inception and the Short-Run Performance of Micro-Firms

Reid, Gavin C - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1996

This paper examines the financial structure and performance of a sample of 150 young micro-firms. Their average age is one and a half years; and their average size is three full-time employees. Short-run performance is measured over one year, in terms of continuing to trade, and the evidence is...

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Information System Development in the Small Firm: tests of contingency, agency and markets & hierarchies approaches

Reid, Gavin C; Smith, Julia A - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1999

This paper is designed to explore the nature of information system development in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), by appeal to three theories: contingency, agency and markets vs hierarchies. To address these theories empirically, use is made of new data which have been gathered from a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005697010

Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Telegdy, Almos - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2005

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

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The Productivity Effects of Privatization in Ukraine: Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data, 1989–2005

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

the data is used to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. The data …This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … imply steadily increasing MFP as a result of domestic privatization, reaching about 25 percent relative to state-owned firms …

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …

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