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This paper identifies the specific external barriers to SME development in Lithuania. An analysis of 332 SME owners … purchasing power, lack of funds for business investment) form the most significant barriers for SME businesses. Informal barriers … (late payment to clients, corruption, government interference) were secondary in significance. By grouping together …
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extensive research. This paper focuses on an area of entrepreneurship which has received relatively little attention in the …-based entrepreneurship (KBE), or new firm creation in industries considered to be science-based or to use research and development (R … knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation and development. In spite of a relative lack of government support, we find …
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extensive research. This paper focuses on an area of entrepreneurship which has received relatively little attention in the …-based entrepreneurship (KBE), or new firm creation in industries considered to be science-based or to use research and development (R …
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This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be …
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Following the broad overview of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE), or new firm creation in industries …
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-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE), or new firm creation in industries considered to be science-based or to use research and development (R …
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Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach den Folgen von Internationalisierungsprozessen kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU … (SMEs) on the in-plant social system, drawing on Kotthoff’s and Reindl’s concept of the Betriebliche Sozialordnung. Small … processes in SMEs are presented. It is argued that a foreign direct investment puts under pressure the established social order …
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This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...
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In the present paper we address the relationship between the extentof business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...
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This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
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