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Patzelt, Holger - 2005

The purpose of this thesis, which is entitled 'Bioentrepreneurship in Germany', is to study important issues of entrepreneurship research in the specific context of the biotechnology industry. The thesis consists of five empirical studies which cover such diverse topics as financing strategies,...

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Corporate Venture Capital and the Acquisition of Entrepreneurial Firms.

Benson, David F. - 2010

This dissertation uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the “direct” (e.g. the effect when acquiring portfolio companies) and “indirect” (the effect on all startups the firm acquires) impact of corporate venture capital investments and the acquisition of technology...

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Essays on Law, Finance, and Venture Capitalists' Asset Allocation Decisions

Obrimah, Oghenovo Adewale - 2005

This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay finds that small firms in poor quality legal environments (poor quality contract enforcement and property rights environments) are more financially constrained relative to small firms in better quality legal environments. Consequently,...

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Do Investor Capabilities Influence the Interpretation of Entrepreneur Signals? Theory and Testing in the Private Equity Setting

Gera, Azi - 2009

Informing outsiders of the potential and quality of the organization in a way that will benefit the organization and avoid putting it at risk is a challenging task in competitive settings. Under conditions of uncertainty, in which external entities are imperfectly informed about the...

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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2002

Locke, Richard M.; Murray, Fiona E.; Johnson, Simon; … - 2002

Enables teams of engineering, science, and management students to work with the top management of international high-tech start-ups and gain hands-on experience in starting and running a new enterprise outside the United States. Lectures expose students to the issues and policies that affect the...

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Innovation diffusion in state owned health: a study of IT adoption

England, Ian William - 2005

rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking … beliefs of senior state health executives. The second study was based upon a survey of state health and banking managers. The …

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Rebuilding the Iron Cage: Post-Failure Organizing in Newspapers and Investment Banks

Burg, Ryan S - 2011

reclaim a sense of purpose lost in banking. These observations hold whether survivors find employment in incumbent firms …

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Economic models of information technology in retail banking

Prasad, Baba - 2003

banking industry. Employing a game-theoretic analysis, the first paper explains the economic reasoning behind the trend in …. The second paper studies pricing decisions for online banking given the existence of network externalities. Most … literature has examined the effect of network externalities on pricing decisions for durable goods. In the case of online banking …

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Congruence between strategy, information technology and decision-making at the unit level: A comparison of U.S.A. and Canadian retail banks

Clarke, Ruth - 1989

. The most striking difference between the banking systems of the U.S.A. and Canada are the disproportionate number of …, institutional study of the retail banking industry, focusing specifically on information technology implementation at the unit level … imply a concern for the timeliness of the research. In both Canada and the U.S.A., governmental deregulation and widespread …

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Productivity modeling and service delivery configuration in bank branches

Zhu, Joe - 1998

Worldwide, the idea of "person-less" banks, and full-service (financial services) institutions which compete with "non-bank" financial services organizations, are becoming the new way of doing business. To meet global competition, the Canadian Financial Services Industry has a need to conduct...

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