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Do Firms Use the Trade Credit Channel to Manage Growth?
FERRANDO, A.; MULIER, K. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2012
While many theories of accounts payable and receivable are related to firm performance, there has not been a direct test whether firms actively use them to manage their growth. We argue that it is not just the accounts payable but also the accounts receivable that matter. While the former help...
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Do firms use the trade credit channel to manage growth?
Ferrando, Annalisa; Mulier, Klaas - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 8, pp. 3035-3046
While many theories of accounts payable and receivable are related to firm performance, there has not been a direct test whether firms actively use them to manage their growth. We argue that it is not just the accounts payable but also the accounts receivable that matter. While the former help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679253
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The 'Lack of Separation' Revisited: Small Business Owners and Risk
Coleman, Susan; Cohn, Richard - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 6 (2001) 1, pp. 104-14
The close link between the personal financial affairs of a small business owner and his or her firm has been noted in prior research. This article compares attitudes toward risk on the part of small business owners (SBOs) and non-small business owners (NSBOs). In addition, it compares the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790629
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Swedish Listed Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Spirit
Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Palmberg, Johanna - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
This paper investigates the entrepreneurial spirit in Swedish listed family firms. We associate family firms with entrepreneurship in the sense that there is an identifiable person that takes the uninsurable risk in the sense of Knight. This paper analysis two questions: Do entrepreneurial...
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Determinants of Profitability: An Analysis of Large Australian Firms
Stierwald, Andreas - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2010
research, directly includes measures of productivity and productivity persistence. Descriptive statistics illustrate that the … effects, productivity and productivity persistence enhance profitability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552763
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The Causes of Profit Heterogeneity in Large Australian Firms
Stierwald, Andreas - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2010
less importance. Another result is that the level of total factor productivity, as a component of firm effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494162
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Learning and Productivity of Swedish Exporting Firms: The importance of Innovation Efforts and the Geography of Innovation
Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741439
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Total Factor Productivity Growth in the State Road Transport Undertakings of India: An Assessment through MPI Approach.
Agarwal, Shivi; Yadav, Shiv Prasad; Singh, S. P. - In: Indian Economic Review 44 (2009) 2, pp. 203-223
This Paper examines the total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components of 34 State Road Transport … Undertakings (STUs) of India for the period 1989-1990 to 2000-2001 using DEA-based Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) approach. The … productivity is explained by the negative change in technology of the STUs, over the sample period. In order to determine the …
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Development of Ownership Structure and its Effect on Performance: Czech Firms from Mass Privatisation
Kocenda, Evzen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper works with a broad data sample of Czech voucher-privatized firms during 1996-99. It analyses the development of ownership structure and consequently its effect on a firm's performance Ownership concentration had been quite high in 1996 and steadily increased. The single largest owner...
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Horizontal and Vertical Firm Networks, Corporate Performance and Product Market Competition
Bischoff, Oliver; Buchwald, Achim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
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