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Top management quality, corporate finance, and corporate innovation
Chemmanur, Thomas J.; Simonyan, Karen - 2017
its relation to various aspects of corporate financial policies and corporate innovation, and draw policy implications for … enhancing corporate innovation. First, we discuss how management quality has been measured in the recent empirical literature … investment policies, and on corporate innovation. Third, we consider the recent empirical literature on the relationship between …
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Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions
Astebro, Thomas B. - 2014
This paper studies the effect of business partners on the commercialization of invention-based ventures, and it assesses the relative importance of the complementary skills, contacts, and financial capital that these partners may add to the original inventor-entrepreneur. Projects run by...
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Alumni Networks in Entrepreneurial Financing
Garfinkel, Jon A.; Mayer, Erik J.; Yimfor, Emmanuel - 2022
One in three deals in the early-stage financing market involves an investor and founder from the same alma mater. We show that founders' connections to early-stage investors through shared education networks are more important than school academic quality or shared geography in facilitating...
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The impact of entrepreneurs’s financial literacy on innovation within small and medium-sized enterprises
Liu, Baohua; Wang, Jiancheng; Chan, Kam C.; Fung, Anna - In: International small business journal : ISBJ 39 (2021) 3, pp. 228-246
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Innovation and the financial performance of firms during the Great Recession and recovery period
Gomes, Nelson; Gonçalves, Nuno - In: Notas económicas (2022) 55, pp. 113-128
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Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay?
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We disaggregate the self-employed into incorporated and unincorporated to distinguish between "entrepreneurs" and other business owners. The incorporated self-employed have a distinct combination of cognitive, noncognitive, and family traits. Besides coming from higher-income families with...
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In brief...'Smart and illicit': the making of a successful entrepreneur
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Smart teenagers who engage in illicit activities are much more likely to become entrepreneurs, according to research by Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein. But, they note, being self-employed doesn't necessarily make someone an entrepreneur: recognising this distinction has enabled them to detect...
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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers
Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018
Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...
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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance
Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of...
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Financing constraints and employers' investment in training
Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2020
Using a representative sample of European firms, this paper studies whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decisions to invest in employee training. It combines survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index...
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