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Strategies for Dealing with Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurship Research
Davidsson, Per - 2007
Business ventures are started by individuals and teams with very different backgrounds and motivations, pursuing business ideas of very variable inherent quality in environments that also show tremendous variability. As a result it is difficult to arrive at broadly valid generalizations, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437544
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The relationship between 'high-performance work practices' and employee attitudes: an investigation of additive and interaction effects
Macky, K; Boxall, P - 2007
In order to improve our understanding of mediating variables inside the‘black box’ of the firm’s labour management, this paper examines the relationship betweenhigh-performance work system (HPWS) practices and employee attitudes. Using arandomly selected, national population sample, clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431044
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Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE): design, data collection and descriptive results
Davidsson, Per; Steffens, Paul R.; Gordon, Scott R. - 2011
The Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE) is a research programme that aims to uncover the factors that initiate, hinder and facilitate the process of emergence of new economic activities and organizations. It is widely acknowledged that entrepreneurship is one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437991
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Intervention research in highly unstable environments
Buckwalter, Kathleen; Grey, M.; Bowers, B.; McCarthy, … - 2009
This article highlights issues and presents strategies for conducting intervention research in highly unstable environments such as schools, critical care units, and long-term care facilities. The authors draw on their own experiences to discuss the challenges that may be encountered in highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466016
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Intervention research in highly unstable environments
Buckwalter, Kathleen; Grey, M.; Bowers, B.; McCarthy, … - 2009
This article highlights issues and presents strategies for conducting intervention research in highly unstable environments such as schools, critical care units, and long-term care facilities. The authors draw on their own experiences to discuss the challenges that may be encountered in highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466026
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Estimating the capacity for improvement in risk prediction with a marker
Gu, Wen; Pepe, Margaret S. - 2009
Consider a set of baseline predictors X to predict a binary outcome D and let Y be a novel marker or predictor. This paper is concerned with evaluating the performance of the augmented risk model P(D = 1|Y,X) compared with the baseline model P(D = 1|X). The diagnostic likelihood ratio, DLRX(y),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483615
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Testing for Consistency in Tourists' Willingness to Pay for New Nature Reserves in the Gulf of Morbihan (France)
Voltaire, Louinord; Nassiri, Abdelhak; Bailly, Denis; … - 2011
In this paper, we develop an empirical test of consistency in contingent willingness topay (WTP) responses, which is based on the following a priori expectation. In economics,when an individual considers paying for public goods, his decision to pay, and his WTP arebased on utility-maximising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442761
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Does Duality Theory Hold in Practice? A Monte Carlo Analysis for U.S. Agriculture
Rosas, Francisco; Lence, Sergio H. - 2011
The Neoclassical theory of production establishes a dual relationship between the profit value function of a competitive firm and its underlying production technology. This relationship, usually referred to as the duality theory, has been widely used in empirical work to estimate production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444351
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Do Fertilizer Subsidies Affect the Demand for Commercial Fertilizer? An Example from Malawi
Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009
function approach to deal with endogeneity of subsidized fertilizer in a commercial fertilizer demand equation. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444833
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Does Economic Endogeneity of Site Facilities in Recreation Demand Models Lead to Statistical Endogeneity?
Chen, Min - 2009
recreation sites. Although some kinds of endogeneity problems have been studied in previous literature, no study has addressed … recreation site improvements are more likely to occur at the more popular sites, then this economic endogeneity might cause … under what situations this economic endogeneity will lead to statistical endogeneity. …
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