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Credit Constraints, Organizational Choice, and Returns to Capital: Evidence from a Rural Industrial Cluster in China
Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2009
entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with minimal barriers to entry. Using a cashmere sweater cluster in China … accessible for small entrepreneurs widely available in rural China, even without a well functioning capital market. The observed …
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Patterns of Managerial Ties in Entrepreneurial Firms in China: A comparative study of economy hotel chains of different ownership types
Liu, Zhaoping; Huang, Songshan Sam; Hsu, Cathy - 2010
Through interviews with 15 top executives of economy hotel chains in China, this study aims to discover how the … benefit from managerial ties. The study contributes to both entrepreneurship and social network theories by summarizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467744
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Innovation und Unternehmertum in der VR China
Seyfart, J?rg - 2005
F?r die VR China gilt unzweifelhaft, dass nach der Einleitung der wirtschaftlichen Reformen unter F?hrung von Deng … beobachtbar, dass die VR China im Vergleich zu der Situation vor Beginn der Einleitung der Wirtschaftsreformen wesentliche … Fortschritte im Bereich des Lebensstandards machen konnte. Die VR China ist schon lange nicht mehr nur eine verl?ngerte Werkbank …
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Relationship marketing: Its potential to enhance public-private sector initiatives
Faculty of Built Environment, Art and Design
In an effort to obtain value for money and eliminate waste and inefficiency, inherent within the public sector, Governments throughout the world are actively encouraging the private sector to become interested in funding public infrastructure projects. There are several examples within Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434993
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Developing a best practice framework for implementing public private partnerships (PPP) in Hong Kong
Cheung, Esther - 2009
Public Private Partnership (PPP) is a well established methodology for procuring public works projects. By incorporating the private sector’s expertise, efficiency, innovation, business sense, risk sharing, financing etc. into public works projects, the quality of public services and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438303
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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH: AN ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGES FACING INDUSTRY AND THE CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Spielman, David J.; von Grebmer, Klaus - 2004
Public-private partnerships offer potentially important opportunities for pro-pooragricultural research in developing countries. Yet in the international agricultural researchcommunity--and with regard to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research(CGIAR) itself--we see few...
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Balancing public and private sector roles in an effective seed supply system
Loch, D. S.; Boyce, K. G. - 2003
A seed supply system can be defined in general terms as that combination of components, processes and their organisation, along with the interactions and support involved in the production and marketing of seeds of one or more species to a particular user–client grouping in an ongoing way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448241
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Capacity building in nonprofit organisations in the development aid sector: explanatory research of capacity building in Indonesia in 2008 and an investigation into the diffusion o...
Parisi, Jacqueline - 2009
The terms capacity building and capability building are frequently heard in organisations and questions have been raised as to whether practices used in the private sector are transferable to the development aid sector.Gaps were revealed in the literature relating to conclusive definitions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475268
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Asian economic and financial crises: causes, ramifications and lessons
Das, Dilip K - 1999
Financial globalisation during the 1990s impinged upon world savings and investment flows, macroeconomic developments, challenges confronting policy makers, international investors and financial market regulators. Experiences of the last two decades reveal that international financial markets...
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Public-private partnerships : a qualitative approach to prospects for pharmacy in the South African health care environment / Johan Christiaan Lamprecht
Lamprecht, Johan Christiaan - 2007
BACKGROUND: Powerful public-private partnerships (PPPs) can only be established if the partners areable to deal with complexity. Such partnerships may serve to stimulate local communityand economic development. Thus, it may maximise the effectiveness of local groupsand resources in meeting the...
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