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Educating generationE in Australasia : US lessons, New Zealand experience
Frederick, Howard - 2005
Australasian countries have huge numbers of young entrepreneurs. Yet the state of entrepreneurship education in this … field study in North America and Europe to examine inter-disciplinary initiatives that take the study of entrepreneurship … and categorises best-practice models of enterprise education, focussing especially on non-business entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483961
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459022
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459069
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459219
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Risk preference and employment contract type
Farrell, Lisa; Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Sessions, … - 2006
We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies capture risk loving behaviour (expenditure on gambling, smoking and alcohol)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475665
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Competition and the growth of non-standard employment : the case of the Australian construction industry
Toner, Phillip; Coates, Nick - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2006
Studies on globalisation suggest that a factor in the growth of nonstandard employment in developed economies has been the growing capacity of multinational corporations to arbitrage wage differentials across countries. This analysis applies in particular to industries subject to direct import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482136
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Renaissance of entrepreneurship? : some remarks and empirical evidence for Germany
Bögehold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - 2007
The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no … the broad margins ofentrepreneurship but also the fluent boarders between entrepreneurship and the informal sector on … particular issue of margins of entrepreneurship not only within theconventional scope of entrepreneurship discussion but within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466404
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Innovative and entrepreneurial activity in the public sector : the changing face of public sector institutions
Luke, Belinda G.; Kearins, Kate; Verreynne, Martie-Louise - 2010
three SOEs. Findings reveal that those aspects typically associated with entrepreneurship, such as innovation, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483465
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A "ruggedised" method for measuring entrepreneurial activity in developing countries
Frederick, Howard - 2010
In July 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey in the Kingdom of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483783
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Finding and filling the gaps in the Australian governments' innovation and entrepreneurship support spectra
Yencken, John; Hindle, Kevin - 2005
thinking about entrepreneurship as the commercialisation component of Australia’s innovation system. The paper explores the … gaps in the support available for the entrepreneurship phase involving the act of new entry. This gap is covered by … servants and politicians about the nature and operation of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483821