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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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An Empirical Analysis of Development Processes for Anticipatory Standards
Mitra, Prasenjit; Purao, Sandeep; Bagby, John W.; … - Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University; … - 2005
There is an evolution in the process used by standards-developmentorganizations (SDOs) and this is changing the prevailing standardsdevelopment activity (SDA) for information and communications technology(ICT). The process is progressing from traditional SDA modes, typicallyinvolving the...
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Intellectual Property Rights and Their Impacts in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis of Maize Breeding in Mexico
Leger, Andreanne - 2005
There is little empirical evidence concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) on a technologically advanced developing country. Complete enumeration of the Mexican maize breeding industry showed that, contrary to the hypothesis that IPR would provide, in a technologically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443020
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP INNOVATIONS AND PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION: TRADE AND WELFARE EFFECTS IN THE SOYBEAN COMPLEX
Sobolevsky, Andrei; Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E. - 2002
We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans, soybean oil, and soybean meal. In the model, some consumers view genetically modified Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and products as weakly inferior to conventional ones; the RR seed is...
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Impact of Foreign Intellectual Property Rights Protection on U.S. Exports and FDI
Gu, Weishi - 2009
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444727
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Intellectual Property Rights and Crop-Improving R&D under Adaptive Destruction
Yerokhin, Oleg; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2007
This paper studies how the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) affects investments in biological innovations when the value of an innovation is stochastically reduced to zero because of the evolution of pest resistance. We frame the problem as a research and development (R&D)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445584
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The Economics of Generating and Maintaining Plant Variety Rights in China
Koo, Bonwoo; Pardey, Philip G.; Qian, Keming; Zhang, Yi - 2003
empirically examine the pattern of plant varietyprotection applications in China since its PVP laws were first introduced in 1997 …. We placethose PVP rights in the context of China’s present and likely future seed markets to identifythe economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445945