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Improving Entrepreneurs’ Digital Skills and Firms’ Digital Competencies through Business Apps Training: A Study of Small Firms
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated … with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … running small firms in Athens (Greece) over three months, with data collected before and after the training. The analysis …
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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies through Business Apps Training: A Study of Small Firms
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated … with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … running small firms in Athens (Greece) over three months, with data collected before and after the training. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351743
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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services
Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - 2002
Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325020
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Institutions and service employment: a panel study for OECD countries
Messina, Julián - 2004
We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main di?erences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...
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Gewerkschaften zwischen Konkurrenz und Kooperation? Inter-organisationale Beziehungen in der Facility Services-Branche
Helfen, Markus; Nicklich, Manuel - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 21 (2014) 2, pp. 161-204
deploy to shape their inter-union relations, i.e. defining jurisdictions, accumulating resources and collective bargaining … defining jurisdictions and accumulating organizational resources are deployed. …
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Interorganisationale Netzwerke und tarifpolitische Fragmentierung: Hebt Mehr-Arbeitgeber-Beschäftigung die Tarifeinheit aus den Angeln?
Helfen, Markus; Nicklich, Manuel; Sydow, Jörg - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 23 (2016) 3, pp. 280-308
Der Aufsatz stellt die Auswirkungen einer netzwerkförmig reorganisierten Wertschöpfung auf das System der Tarifpolitik zur theoretischen und empirischen Diskussion vor. Im Vordergrund steht die These, nach der eine solche (Re-)Organisation interorganisational segmentierte Belegschaften...
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The shift to services : a review of the literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003
The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ?classics?, however (Fisher (1935), Clark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261657
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Product Innovation and Population Dynamics in the German Insurance Market
Menhart, Michael; Pyka, Andreas; Ebersberger, Bernd; … - 2003
Empirical research in organizational ecology has mainly focused on analyzing founding and mortality rates using life history data of the organizations. We try to extend this approach in our study in a number of ways. In contrast to most empirical studies in organizational ecology, we chose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262999
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Optimal choice and consumption of cost cap tariffs: Theory and empirical evidence
Köhler, Philip; Krämer, Jan; Krüger, Lars - In: Business Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 161-190
Cost cap tariffs are pay-per-use tariffs for which costs cannot exceed a predefined cost limit. They were recently introduced to telecommunications markets, but were previously also applied in the insurance industry as deductibles or in the rental industry as day rates. This paper develops and...
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A Survey of Working Capital Policy among Small Manufacturing Firms
Burns, Richard; Walker, Joe - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 1 (1991) 1, pp. 61-74
This study reports results of a nationwide survey on overall working capital policy of small manufacturing firms. The survey instrument used was a modified version of the 1980 Smith and Sell study [18] on large firms. A detailed 36-question form queried firms on their overall working capital...
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