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This paper introduces a new approach to "cultural transmission of preferences" (see Bisin and Verdier, 2000, 2001). It is based on the conceptualization of the culture of a person as a set of cultural values and attitudes, represented as an n-dimensional tuple in Euclidean space. The culture of...
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This paper introduces a generalized representation of the formation of continuous preferences (which can reflect different intensities). The preference intensity that a child adopts is formed as the collective outcome of all role models for preference intensities - which are derived from the...
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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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