This dissertation explores different perspectives on the growth trajectory of companies spun off from publicly funded research. It is composed of four papers, of which the first one provides an overview of the environment for spin-offs in Canada, and the three remaining papers present...

For researchers studying the economic development of nations, the availability of human capital data is crucial. Economists making efforts to examine the impact of human resources on economic development before the end of World War II often face massive problems. Methods of collecting data,...

The topic of this thesis is the impact of scale effects onto labor productivity and its implications. Chapter one gives an overview of the economic literature on scale effects. It starts with reviewing early economic writings; summarizes the literature of the new trade theory, the new economic...

In the tournament games only the winner can advance to the next roundsof competition. The important feature of tournament is that the reward isbased on the rank order among competitors rather than absolute level oftheir performances. This type of reward system can be widely found incompetition...

This is a research study rating ten major Korean Conglomerates' ServiceRecovery Platform. The study used self-administered test from Performance ResearchAssociates to rate the platforms. The demographics indicate that the areas of businessthese conglomerates involve in are: Electronics,...