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Nanotechnology and business opportunities: scenarios as awareness instrument

Knol, Erik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

For a few years now, nanotechnology has been recognised as a promising new growth innovator. This leads to a shift from the exploration of nanotechnology knowledge towards a phase of exploitation. The coming years this commercialisation of nanotechnology will be extended. Nanotechnology is a...

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The Application of Principal-Agent Methods to Investor-Investee Relations in the UK Venture Capital Industry

Reid, Gavin C - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1998

Principal-agent analysis is applied to contemporary evidence on venture capital investment. The investor (as principal) and investee (as agent) are analysed in terms of risk management, information handling and the trading of risk and information. Investors and investees were paired in 'dyads',...

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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth

Karlan, Dean; Fischer, Greg - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

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Entrepreneurship - Methodische Herausforderungen einer jungen Forschungsdisziplin

Schuster, Charlotte Leonie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

found, if entrepreneurship is to be understood as an independent research discipline. Should entrepreneurship have its own … methodological challenges. In addition, data bases in entrepreneurship are often small and difficult to access and therefore restrict … arise for empirical entrepreneurship research? Based on a literature review and an outline of the state of research, it will …

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Trust-based Work-time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

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Characterization and analysis of internal and external environment of the company MGDL (brand Fly) in Russia.

Suleymanova, Elena - In: Annals of marketing-mba 4 (2011) 11

The question of compliance with environmental conditions and opportunities for the company's organizational structure and strategy of the present article. The submissions are some data about the dynamics of the mobile phone market in Russia. The main trends of its development and basic consumer...

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Investor’s Commitment Bias and Escalation of Firm’s Investment Decision

HAMZA, Fadhila; JARBOUI, Anis - In: Economia. Seria Management 15 (2012) 2, pp. 327-345

This study examines the reasons of perseverance in firm’s investment decision. It shows the possible influence of three closely related features which are: firm’s financial indicators, investor’s risk profile, and investor’s commitment bias, on a firm’s investment decisions escalation....

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Human Capital-Intensive Firms and Symbolic Value Creation

CEZANNE, Cécile; SAGLIETTO, Laurence - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics and Business 7 (2014) 1, pp. 70-88

The aim of this paper is to study the process of symbolic value creation of human capital-intensive firms. Human capital is a critical resource for firms’ activities. Nevertheless, this dimension is often obscured by industrial economists. In the light of critical resource theory, we analyze...

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Gender Discrimination, Education and Economic Growth in a Generalized Uzawa-Lucas Two-Sector Model

ZHANG, Wei-Bin - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics and Business 7 (2014) 1, pp. 1-34

This paper is mainly concerned with relationships between economic growth and gender discrimination in labor markets and education. Although discrimination in different fields has well been addresses and modelled in the economic literature, there are only a few growth models with endogenous...

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