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This paper investigates the experience of motherhood and employment within the UK accounting profession by examining … undertaking a process of redefinition and transformation of the self. Drawing from contemporary theories on identity, it considers … extent social, institutional and cultural factors shape and restrict the ways in which the self is experienced. The paper …
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Replaced with revised version of poster 07/20/10.
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This study addresses the proposition that the characteristics of innovative and noninnovative small firms have significant differences. It is based on a sample of 50 Texas manufacturers. Cluster analysis yielded five distinct groups---two innovative and three noninnovative. The two innovative...
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This paper presents an explicit model of the entrepreneur’s role in organizing the work undertaken by employees. The model assumes that agents vary in their ability to carry out this task, and so in one sense the model is a special case of Lucas’ [Bell Journal of Economics, 9, pp. 508-523,...
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We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …
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Over the past several years, Abraham Briloff's writings have caused considerable ripples in the financial community with his insistent articles in various financial journals, especially Barron's. Among the subjects of his critical commentaries have been US Financial, ITT, lOS (under Cornfeld and...
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culturelle de Mary Douglas combinée à la notion de prudence. …
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that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
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taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human … depth analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship in Italy, thus accounting for the role that variables like the …
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probability to become self-employed, than those in the first cohort. We also find significant time and region effects. Contrary to … some existing evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to become self-employed. We discuss …
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