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Beteiligungskapital und selektive Informationssuche in mittelständischen Unternehmen
Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Poech, Angela; Groth, Thorsten - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2005
A survey conducted by the Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies (CEFS) at Technische Universität München in cooperation with the chamber of commerce (IHK) for Munich and Oberbayern showed that mid-sized businesses show great interest in private equity. However, nearly 60% of the 266...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009219927
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The dearth of daughter successors in family businesses: Gendered norms, blindness to possibility, and invisibility
Overbeke, Kathyann Kessler; Bilimoria, Diana; Perelli, Sheri - In: Journal of Family Business Strategy 4 (2013) 3, pp. 201-212
Statistics reveal a dearth of daughters among successors of family business owners. In one of very few empirical studies on the subject of daughters who do not follow in the footsteps of their entrepreneurial fathers, we examined factors that may contribute to daughters’ self-assessments of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010703269
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South Africa’s International Competitiveness: A Product Level Analysis
Kellman, Mitchell; Roxo, Trevor; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2003
As South Africa emerges from its Apartheid period, the evolution of its international trade is vital to the growth of the economy. This paper evaluates South Africa’s trade performance in three essential markets, namely United States, Europe and Japan. It examines the nation’s flexibility in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061923
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The New Economy in Germany and the United States: Policy Challenges and Solutions.
Audretsch, David; Bank, Matthias; Carree, Martin; … - HAL - 2002
Germany and the United States to identify research and policy issues posed by the transformation we have come to call the new …. The third issue pertains to research and policy questions posed by the New Economy. In addressing these issues, the … agglomerations and clusters, and (4) the emergence of entrepreneurship as an engine of growth and development. The forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899401
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Regional growth regimes revisited - the case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004
characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207023
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The effect of new firm formation on regional development over time
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004
In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags. We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...
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Direct and indirect effects of new business formation on regional employment
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela; Weyh, Antje - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004
We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The main effects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due to job creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part of the debate about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207052
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The persistence of regional new business formation-activity over time: assessing the potential of policy promotion programs
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2005
entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition … Innovationsaktivitäten und von Entrepreneurship stellen geeignete Ansatzpunkte für eine Politik dar, die auf eine Steigerung der …
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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...
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Soap Operas for Female Micro Entrepreneur Training
Nakasone, Eduardo; Torero, Maximo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper analyzes the impact of the Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship in Peru (SWEP) program. SWEP trained female …
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