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The benefits of family ownership and control of firms are at the center of the family firm debate. Previous studies have used either family ownership or management as proxies for control. Both indicators are off the mark, as they do not measure decision control as intended by the theory of the...
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research has improved our understanding of how large corporations are governed, corporate governance in small and medium sized …
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focus on entrepreneurship where only bona fide entrepreneurship research theories would explain entrepreneurial phenomena …The term “entrepreneurship” apparently means different things to different people including scholars and thought … leaders. Because entrepreneurship is multifaceted, it is studied from many different perspectives, yet, that has fostered a …
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knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …
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we test the model empirically using research project data on entrepreneurial firms that were funded through the U ….S. Department of Energy’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We find that larger firms are more likely to be … involved in a research partnership with a university, in general, as are firms with founders who have an academic background …
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the supply side, which involves university research and technology transfer mechanisms. We examine the role played by the … Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We provide supply-side evidence on university research relationships and how the use of … results suggest that knowledge is systematically transmitted through university-related research. …
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thinking about the economy in general and the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in particular, not only shape how … innovation and entrepreneurial activity are valued, but also the overall policy debate concerning innovation and entrepreneurship …
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This paper focuses on valuation issues and methods that are related to a closely-held entrepreneurial enterprise. This focus is motivated by the fact that the number of small closely held business start-ups, which we refer to broadly by the term entrepreneurial enterprises, continues to grow...
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in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. This paper attempts to make a first step identifying …
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This paper shows how and why the Solow growth accounting framework is useful for linking entrepreneurship capital to … knowledge investments on economic growth. By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link … between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. Entrepreneurship is an important mechanism permeating the knowledge …
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