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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2003
Using data from the confidential and restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) Survey, we provide some suggestive evidence on the causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background affects small business...
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Business Success & Sustainability
Dalglish, Carol L. - 2004
The survival rate of small business is quite small, and the proportion of those surviving that go on to success and long term sustainability is even smaller. This paper explores the role of leadership in the sustainability of entrepreneurial enterprises and the relevance of Collin’s research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437473
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Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris is Wrecking Companies and Careers and How to Avoid the Trap
Hayward, Mathew - 2007
No one executive is immune from that difficult-to-distinguish line that divides the self-confidence required of a successful CEO from the hubris seen at the root of so many corporate scandals today. We can count Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Martha Stewart, and Jack Welch among the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448464
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An investigation into the notions of 'success' and 'failure' held by senior UK airline executives and their perceptions of the causes of 'success'
Beech, J. G. - 2003
This study explores the notions of 'success' and 'failure' held by senior executives in the UK and Irish airline industry. Previous studies of this industry have tended to be from a positivist perspective, focusing on financial performance at the level of 'airline' or 'airline industry'. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463028
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The "outsider" entrepreneurs: the role of founders' immigrant status in the internationalization and performance of high technology new ventures.
Yavuz, Rukiye Isil - 2011
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major: Business Administration. Advisors:Harry Sapienza, & Srilata Zaheer. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 179 pages, appendices 1-3.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009462806
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing:Two-Part Tariffs
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Institute for Economic Analysis - 2007
We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering … i pays to network j as a linear functionof the marginal costs and the retail prices set by both networks. In thecase of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435112
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing:Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand
Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 2008
We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435152
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Learning, language and leadership : conduits to dynamic public service networks
Keast, Robyn L.; Mandell, Myrna - 2009
Networks are having a profound impact on the way society is organised at the local, national and international level …. Networks are not ‘business as usual’. The defining feature of networks and a key indicator for their success is the strength … and quality of the interactions between members. This relational power of networks provides the mechanism to bring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437748
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The internationalization process of entrepreneurial SMEs in high technology niche market segments
Cruz-Carreon, Gilbert - 2007
This study seeks to make a theoretical contribution to the rapidly growing field ofInternational Entrepreneurship by investigating the process of internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Bell, McNaughton, Young & Crick, (2003) emphasized the need for researchers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437798
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The entrepreneurial playwright : a relational approach to marketing plays in the regions
Ainsworth, Rodney Phillip - 2008
This exegesis examines the proposition that playwriting is an entrepreneurial activity when combined with the role of producer. The thesis demonstrates that, when a playwright combines the two roles and considers the development of a network of relationships in the process, positive steps can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437885