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Institutional environment, human capital, and firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam

Gries, Thomas; Dung, Ha van - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of the institutional environment and the entrepreneur’s education on firm growth in Vietnam. Using a firm-level dataset, we obtain a balanced panel data from 2006 to 2009 for 37,788 registered enterprises from a unique data set. We analyze the effects...

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Intra-firm orientations and their influence on firm growth: The case of Russian SMEs

Kulikov, Alexander V.; Shirokova, Galina V. - Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State … - 2010

The results of survey of specific sets of deliberate intra-firm activities called intra-firm orientations are discussed. The authors distinguish between entrepreneurial orientation, change orientation and knowledge orientation. Factor analysis and structure equation modelling methods are used to...

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The Economic Contribution of High-Growth Firms: Do Policy Implications Depend on the Choice of Growth Indicator?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 14 (2014) 3, pp. 337-365

Prior studies have defined high-growth firms (HGFs) in terms of growth in firm employment or firm sales, and primarily analyzed their contribution to overall employment growth. In this paper we define HGFs using the commonly applied growth indicators (employment and sales), but also add...

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering ‘breakthrough’ innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs’ choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing...

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Risk attitude, product innovation, and firm growth. Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Cucculelli, Marco; Ermini, Barbara - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 275-279

We study the impact of individual risk attitude on the relationship between product innovation and firm performance, in a model of firm growth with endogenous product selection. We exploit a unique dataset collecting firm-level data on new product introductions and individual attitudes towards...

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New Venture Survival and Growth: When does the fog lift?

Coad, Alex; Frankish, Julian; Roberts, Richard G.; … - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2012

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Global demand, regional business dynamics and local firm growth

Jung, Andrés; Plottier, Cecilia; Francia, Heber - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 6 (2013) 1, pp. 66-82

Latin America, particularly MERCOSUR region, faces an extraordinary expansion of global demand, partially originated in Asia, for natural resources based products. Production and exports of these products have increased significantly, generating a strong regional business dynamics that favours...

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Introduction

Yan, Ho-don - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 7 (2014) 2, pp. 121-129

Current theories or strategies of entrepreneurship for firms mostly focus on advanced economies and rarely on emerging … communist countries, which used to suffer from institutional predicaments of promoting entrepreneurship. Interesting topics in … explored. This special issue provides a forum to show how entrepreneurship exerts its influence on firm formation, firm growth …

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Entrepreneurial leadership, capital structure and capabilities development of the firm: the case of the Haier Group

Yu, Fu-Lai Tony - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 7 (2014) 2, pp. 241-255

This paper integrates the concept of entrepreneurial leadership and capabilities theories with Austrian economics to explain the growth of the firm in emerging economies. It argues that entrepreneurial leadership provides a vision to the development of a new product or an organisation. The...

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