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Why Butterflies Don't Leave. Locational behaviour of entrepreneurial firms
Stam, Erik - 2006
Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development. Especially the continued growth of a …
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Benefits of Control, capital structure and company growth
Mueller, Elisabeth - 2005
This paper studies the influence of the benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies for a sample of 8,964 UK companies with limited liability observed for up to 5 years. It is hypothesised that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if...
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Regional determinants of new business formation in China: Prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015
entrepreneurship. …
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401794
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Peace, prosperity and pro-growth entrepreneurship
Naudé, Wim - 2007
Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of … post-conflict states. In this paper I critically evaluate this view. I argue that entrepreneurship is a ubiquitous quality … in post-conflict states but not necessarily always for the good. Unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323518
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Miltä startupit näyttävät tilastojen valossa?
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
In this study, we analyze the characteristics and development of Finnish startups based on firm-level data available in public databases. By startups we refer to young, small, and independent firms holding basic elements for growth. Some 4 000–5 000 of such firms are being established...
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Onko uusyrittäjyyden luonne muuttunut?
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
About half of all new business activity in Finland can be categorized as being entrepreneurial. The number of this kind of new businesses has not increased dramatically during the last ten years. However, the characteristics of these businesses have changed. Nowadays, new entrepreneurs have...
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262083
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. Socioeconomic heritage has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267124
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Entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America
Ács, Zoltán J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - 2008
This study analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial dynamics and the level of competitiveness in Latin American countries. Based on a stage of economic development model we demonstrate that Latin American countries under the model followed different paths related to competitiveness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271776