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Family business and regional development
Basco, Rodrigo (contributor); Stough, Roger (contributor);  … - 2021
experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics, and economic geography, this book will be a valuable reading for advanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323772
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Goal structures in family firms: empirical evidence on the relationship between firm and family goals
Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Braun, Reiner; Schraml, Stephanie - 2009
Goal structures in family firms seems of particular interest to the field as the overall orientation and the objectives of family firms are determined in an area of potential conflict between the two subsystems of firm and family. We asked shareholders of German family firms to rate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305727
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Are CEOs in family firms paid like bureaucrats?: evidence from Bayesian and frequentist analyses
Block, Jörn Hendrich - 2008
The relationship between CEO pay and performance has been much analyzed in the management and economics literature. This study analyzes the structure of executive compensation in family and non-family firms. In line with predictions of agency theory, it is found that the share of base salary is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263730
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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008
entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264315
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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008
entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265682
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Long-term orientation in family and non-family firms: a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn Hendrich; Thams, Andreas - 2007
A stronger long-term orientation is considered a competitive advantage of family firms relative to non-family firms. In this study, we use panel data of U.S. firms and analyze this proposition. Our findings are surprising. Only in when the family is involved in the management of the firm is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263703
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971
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The birth of a new industry: Entry by start-ups and the drivers of firm growth. The case of encryption software
Giarratana, Marco S. - 2003
firm competitive advantages. This work shows that innovation and product differentiation, along with investments in co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328359
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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266651
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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269550