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Staff recruitment, selection and retention in family-owned small businesses

Cameron, Leone C - 2008

The proficient Human Resource Management of employees and their contribution to small business is commonly accepted as … contributing to Australia’s future prosperity (Schaper, 2000). Effective recruitment, selection and retention of employees are part … of the employment relationship and can enhance work performance and contribute to business success (Compton and Nankervis …

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Organizational Form and Niche Overlap: The Dynamics of Surgery Center Entry and Exit

Housman, Michael G - 2009

The literature on organizational niche suggests that competition between firms that have overlapping niches tends to elevate exit risks. Thus, firms tend to enter markets that are relatively uncrowded in order to minimize direct competition with other firms. Although this research has focused on...

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The analytical foundations of evolutionary economics: From biological analogy to economic self-organisation

Foster, J. - 1997

In this paper, it is argued that the espousal of biological analogies by evolutionary economists cannot reveal the most important features of evolutionary change in economic processes. Analogies are used to best effect in the preliminary stages of research and in their normal linguistic role as...

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The Effect of Business Diversification on a Firm¡¯s Performance, Depending on Its Dynamic Capabilities and Market Dynamism

Cho, Young Sik - In: Journal of Management and Strategy 4 (2013) 3, pp. 1-8

This study examines the relationships between a firm's business diversification, dynamic capabilities, and performance …

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Failing firms and successful entrepreneurs: serial entrepreneurship as a temporal portfolio

Sarasvathy, Saras; Menon, Anil; Kuechle, Graciela - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 417-434

illustrates the relevance of considering firms and entrepreneurs as distinct loci of analysis. Copyright Springer Science+Business …

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Do Commercial Banks, Savings Banks, and Credit Unions Compete?

Fuentelsaz, Lucio; Gomez, Jaime; Lucea, Victoria - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 5 (2006) 1, pp. 17-27

This paper attempts to evaluate the extent to which rivalry between the different financial intermediaries that operate in the Spanish banking system has been influenced by the recent liberalization process. Our theoretical model is borrowed from population ecology and allows us to take into...

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Myths of exponential growth in populations and wealth: an emergent perspective

Yezdani, Omer R. - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 29 (2013) November, pp. 307-307

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the dilemma of exponential growth in economic policy and its implications on sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach – The future of the world economy is premised in part on the assumption of an implicit law of increasing...

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An institutional sociology perspective of the adaptation of activity based costing by spanish health

URRUTIA, IGNACIO - Área de Entorno Económico, Instituto de Empresa - 2004

Per institutional sociology hospitals will respond to external environmental pressures and adopt Activity-Based-Costing (ABC). This theory overemphasizes conformity and failures to consider the advantages of organizational non-conformance. A conflict of interests between physicians and...

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Regional Influences on the Prevalence of Family Versus Non-Family Start-Ups

Bird, Miriam; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

We integrate insights from family business and organizational ecology into the entrepreneurship field by constructing a … context’ is an important yet under-theorized area for research on venture creation and family business. …

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Network Traces on Penetration: Uncovering Degree Distribution from Adoption Data

Dover, Yaniv; Goldenberg, Jacob; Shapira, Daniel - In: Marketing Science 31 (2012) 4, pp. 689-712

We show how networks modify the diffusion curve by affecting its symmetry. We demonstrate that a network's degree distribution has a significant impact on the contagion properties of the subsequent adoption process, and we propose a method for uncovering the degree distribution of the adopter...

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