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This thesis investigates the optimal ex-ante mix of self-protection and self-insurance technologies employed to reduce the risk of biological invaders in the presence of exogenous variables within the probability and damage functions. This is accomplished by using a theoretical endogenous risk...
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green power through 2015 that were made using historical data and three scenarios: low-growth, high-growth, and negative … results of this forecast, including uncertainties related to growth assumptions, the impacts that policy may have on the …
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early growth of the Internet are expected to be informative and pertinent. …
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suggests that state policy will continue to drive even faster growth over the next decade. Federal policy has also played a …
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studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both … growth and profitability are important dimensions of SME performance. The majority of earlier studies tend to focus on the … evolution of firm growth or profitability separately. Alternatively, they explore the impact of growth on profitability and vice …
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This study investigated the longitudinal behaviour of growth rates and profitability for a large sample of Australian … firms. Similar to previous studies, growth rates were found to be much more volatile than profitability measures. Using a … regression equation with lagged profit and growth variables, we found no evidence of a consistent relationship between growth and …
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Firm growth is almost universally portrayed as a good thing, and is commonly used as a measure of success. Applying … resource-based reasoning, we argue that growth is often not a sign of sound development. Specifically, we hypothesize that … secure high profitability at low growth. Empirical tests using two large, longitudinal data sets confirm that the profitable …
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Entrepreneurial marketing has gained popularity in both the entrepreneurship and marketing disciplines in recent times. The success of ventures that have pursued what are considered non-traditional marketing approaches has been attributed to entrepreneurial marketing practices. Despite the...
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manufacturing, construction and mining and a growth in social, personal, financial and commercial services, as well as a … to large firms in any general sense because most small firms are not innovative, do not contribute to employment growth …
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Studies of small firm growth are no longer short in supply. On the contrary, as demonstrated by recent reviews, dozens … everything we want to know about small firm growth. In fact, all of the authors of recent review articles complain that a … significant progress has been made and that we do actually know quite a bit now about the phenomenon of small firm growth; its …
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