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Internationalization of Management Buyouts
Wright, Mike - 2013
Multivariate statistical analysis is utilized to explore the association between firm strategies, contributions made by venture capitalists and incentives for owners and employees and three exporting variables in a stratified random sample of 147 management buyouts and buyins. Firms focusing...
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Why Do European Venture Capital Companies Syndicate?
Manigart, Sophie - 2012
Financial theory, resource-based theory and access to deal flow are used to explain syndication practices among European venture capital (VC) firms. The desire to share risk and increase portfolio diversification is a more important motive for syndication than the desire to access additional...
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The Impact of Business Ownership Change on Employee Relations : Buy-Outs in the UK and the Netherlands
Bruining, Hans - 2010
A buy-out is a fundamental change in the structure of ownership that may affect the way employee relations develop within an organisation. Little is known about the impact of buyouts upon employee relations. This paper aims to address this gap. We focus on two main questions. First, what are the...
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Management Control Systems and Strategy Change in Buyouts
Bruining, Hans; Wright, Mike; Bonnet, Marcel - 2012
The impact of management buy-outs (MBO) on strategy and managementcontrol systems (MCS) is little understood. Previous research by Jones(1992) focused on efficiency-enhancing buy-outs that were a feature ofthe early development of the market. However, MBOs are heterogeneousand more recent...
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International Entrepreneurship : Managerial and Policy Implications
Cumming, Douglas J.; Sapienza, Harry J.; Siegel, Donald S. - 2009
This paper provides an overview of the literature on international entrepreneurship (henceforth, IE). In doing so, we … adopt a broad perspective on IE, consistent with the notion that entrepreneurship refers to how opportunities to create …
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Entrepreneurship : An Assessment
Mayer, Colin - 2018
This article reviews evidence of the impact of entrepreneurship on job creation, gender and race discrimination …, university spinoffs, growth, economic geography, finance and the public sector. It defines entrepreneurship, corrects some … suggests that the distinctive nature of entrepreneurship raises theoretical, empirical and policy issues that the existing …
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Digital Affordances, Spatial Affordances, and the Genesis of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Autio, Erkko - 2017
Entrepreneurial ecosystems command increasing attention from policy-makers, academics, and practitioners, yet the phenomenon itself remains under-theorized. Specifically, the conceptual similarities and differences of entrepreneurial ecosystems relative to, e.g., clusters, ‘knowledge...
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Location Choices of Graduate Entrepreneurs
Larsson, Johan - 2017
the individual-opportunity nexus and local embeddedness perspectives on entrepreneurship. Analysis of the full population …
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Entrepreneurial Orientation in Management Buy-Outs and the Contribution of Venture Capital
Bruining, Hans - 2012
This paper focuses on the development of entrepreneurial orientation (EO)after a management buy-out (MBO) and on the role played by venture capitalfirms in enhancing EO. It presents results of two exploratory case studiesof divisional buy-outs with regard to their EO and the areas where...
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The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spill-Overs: Performance Differences between University Spin-Offs and Corporate Spin-Offs
Wennberg, Karl; Wiklund, Johan; Wright, Mike - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
we suggest that knowledge transfer from academic research may flow indirectly to entrepreneurship by individuals with a …
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