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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

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Are Rushed Privatizations Substandard? Analyzing Firm-Level Privatization under Fiscal Pressure

Hagemeier, Jan; Svejnar, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

In this paper we provide the first analysis of whether rushed privatizations, usually carried out under fiscal duress, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed...

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Is Ethical Money Sensitive to Past Returns? The Case of Portfolio Constraints and Persistence of Islamic and Socially Responsible Funds

Abdelsalam, Omneya; Duygun, Meryem; Matallín-Sáez, … - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2014

We analyse the performance persistence and survivorship bias of Islamic and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds …-financial attributes influence performance and performance persistence. We propose a refined version of the procedures used in the … literature based on a cross-sectional test to control for significance of the recursive portfolios according to past performance …

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Capacites d'innovation : comparaison de l'emploi en sciences et en genie dans les villes canadiennes et americaines

Brown, W. Mark; Beckstead, Desmond - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

-2001. Cette comparaison donne une idee de la performance des villes canadiennes relativement a leurs analogues americaines au …

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Changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises du secteur canadien de la fabrication (de 1973 a 1997)

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

Le present document de recherche etudie les changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises et des usines depuis le debut des annees 70 dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication. Il revele qu'il y a eu, en general, une augmentation de la specialisation tant des entreprises...

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Changes in the Diversification of Canadian Manufacturing Firms and Plants (1973-1997): A Move to Specialization

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...

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Ownership and Firm Performance after Large-Scale Privatization

Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2003

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state ownership. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …

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Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups

Thurik, Roy; van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; Frese, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …

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Human Resource management, Institutionalisation and Organisational Performance

Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the …

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Challenging (Strategic) Human Resource management Theory

Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in … policies in a specific company. In this way the paper broadens the present HRM and Performance debate by explicitly taking into …

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