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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...
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Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K.; Panos, Georgios A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...
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Do Public Subsidies Have an Impact on New Firm Survival? An Empirical Study with French Data
Desiage, Lionel; Duhautois, Richard; Redor, Dominique - HAL - 2010
This paper deals with the impact of social contributions and tax cuts (which are considered as operating subsidies) on new firms' probability of survival and economic performance. We use a rich matched database of French firms that were newly created in 1998 and that include entrepreneurs'...
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Risk tolerance and entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K; Panos, Georgios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083758
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Cognitive biases, organization, and entrepreneurial firm survival
Gudmundsson, Sveinn Vidar; Lechner, Christian - In: European Management Journal 31 (2013) 3, pp. 278-294
Entrepreneur’s cognitive biases have emerged as one of the central themes in understanding the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Research has shown that entrepreneur’s overconfidence and optimism bias help firm creation, but also contribute to firm failure. Prior studies using cognitive...
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Competitive strategies and company performance of Taiwanese firms
Haddad, Kamal M.; Wu, Anne; John R. Wingender <suffix>Jr.< - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 9 (2015) 2, pp. 170-185
Competitive strategy is an important determinant of firm survival and success. The strategy that a firm employs reflects the specific competitive methods that its managers emphasise as well as the broad pattern showing how these methods are combined for use in the firm. In an extensive study of...
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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival
Cefis, E.; Marsili, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004
population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the Community Innovation Survey. Through estimation of a parametric …This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288642
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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival
Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2005
population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the Community Innovation Survey. Through estimation of a parametric …This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292619
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Patent Citations, University Inventor Patents, and Survival in the German Laser Source Industry (1960-2005)
Luis F. Medrano E. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654263
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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival
Cefis, Cefis, E.; Marsili, Marsili, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the Community Innovation Survey. Through estimation of a parametric …This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730874