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Joining the supply chain : a firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
Asian economies. Meanwhile, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make a small contribution to supply chain activity … also influence jo ining supply chains. The paper suggests that governments can facilit ate SMEs joining supply chains … through a market-oriented strategy for SMEs, modern physical infrastructure, streamlined bureaucratic procedures and good …
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Size of training firms and cumulated long-run unemployment exposure : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers’ careers
Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435940
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Size of training firms : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers' careers
Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454435
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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014 - Version: 1 October 2014
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
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Who creates jobs? : estimating job creation rates at the firm level
Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2013
This paper analyzes econometric models of the Davis, Haltiwanger and Schuh (1996) job creation rate. In line with the most recent job creation literature, we focus on employment-weighted OLS estimation. Our main theoretical result reveals that employment-weighted OLS estimation of DHS job...
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All Things Great and Small : Organizational Size, Boundaries of the Firm, and a Changing Environment
Josefy, Matthew - 2017
Research findings have established a relationship between organizational size and a substantial set of organizational outcomes, resulting in size's distinction as “perhaps the most powerful explanatory organizational covariate in strategic analysis”. We draw on the theory of the firm to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963045
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Determinants of Diversification by Young, Small Firms
Baptista, Rui - 2012
Young firm diversification is examined investigating the determinants of the timing of diversification (i.e. how long it takes from start-up to diversification). We use extensive longitudinal data containing information on firms' characteristics and environmental conditions, and their evolution...
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A general framework to evaluate economic efficiency with an application to British SME
Pru°ša, Jan - 2009
This article formalises the idea of money-metric production frontiers, which we propose as a general framework for nonparametric evaluation of economic efficiency. As we show in our methodological discussion, this improves the flexibility and economic interpretation of our model. The empirical...
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“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” : a snapshot
Poschke, Markus - 2010
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms to grow less, but are likely to stay in the market. This evidence is a challenge for existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959157
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Hierarchies, the small firm effect, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Swedish microdata
Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - 2013
We explore whether the tendency for smaller firms to have fewer hierarchical layers explains the well-documented inverse correlation between firm size and the rate at which employees become business owners. Our analysis is based on a Swedish matched employer-employee dataset. Conditional on firm...
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