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Determinants of new technology-based firms performance in catch-up regions: evidence from the U.S. biopharmaceutical and IT service industries 1996-2005
Xiao, Wenbin - 2008
This study investigates the impacts of regional characteristics on the early-stage performance of New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) in catch-up regions where a mature industrial cluster has yet to be formed. It hypothesized that the average NTBF performance in a region is a function of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475935
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Organizational resources, industry membership, and firm performance: the role of capability formation and use in value creation for IPO-stage new ventures
Hitt, Michael A. (contributor);  … - 2007
. Further, it contributes to growing researchon IPO firms in strategic management and entrepreneurship, especially theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464920
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Essays in corporate finance
Laranjeira, Bruno d. - 2011
This thesis presents two essays in Corporate Finance. In the first essay, I use the August 2007 crisis episode to gauge the effect of financial contracting on real firm behavior. I identify heterogeneity in financial contracting at the onset of the crisis by exploiting ex-ante variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477629
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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
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New Zealand's perfect storm of entrepreneurship and economic development
Frederick, Howard; Monsen, Erik - 2011
Applying a grounded-theory approach to analyzing the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, we attempt to explain … why New Zealand exhibits only a moderate level of economic development despite its high level of entrepreneurship. By … curvilinear relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development, we develop a better understanding of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483886
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Entrepreneurship and economic growth : why is New Zealand an outlier? A preliminary analysis
Frederick, Howard - 2005
The literature indicates that entrepreneurship and economic growth are closely and positively associated. For four … if it were to emulate other countries. We make use of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data set, including nascent … entrepreneurship rates for 45 countries over the 2000-2004 period as well as variables from standardised national statistics. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483962
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Measuring entrepreneurial activity in low-teledensity countries
Frederick, Howard; Haslett, Stephen; Wolfgramm, Tania; … - 2011
In 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey of social and business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484122