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The alert and creative entrepreneur : a clarification
Kirzner, Israel M. (contributor) - 2008
Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the … entrepreneurial decisions) provides a theoretical underpinning for public policy vis-àvis entrepreneurship. Professor Kirzner’s main … contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship were also presented and evaluated by Douhan, Eliasson and Henrekson (2007 …
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From modern microeconomics to entrepreneurial theory of evolution and learning : the substantive performance approach
Lahti, Arto - In: Liiketaloudellinen aikakauskirja 57 (2008) 3, pp. 362-381
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The Naturalist View of Universal Darwinism : An Application to the Evolutionary Theory of the Firm
Stoelhorst, J. W. - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to recent efforts to ground evolutionary theory in economics in the principles of Universal Darwinism. The paper will contrast two views of evolution, based on the Ultra-Darwinian and Naturalist theory of biological evolution, both of which are...
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Performative Mechanisms
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2015
Performativity is grounded in a particular kind of social mechanisms that involve semiotic causation. I combine three different literatures, on performativity, on constitutive explanations in the social sciences, and on Peircian semiotics into a conceptual and methodological framework that can...
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Corporate Social Capital and Firm Performance
Lock Lee, Laurence; Guthrie, James; Gallery, Natalie - 2009
Traditional corporate social capital formulations have been based on a firm’s positioning within its network of market place alliances. This paper extends this model by incorporating additional firm status attributes into an integrated model for corporate social capital. An empirical study of...
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Profit, Trust, and Contract : Alternative or Complimentary Logics in Market Exchange?
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2016
Economic sociologists have concluded that social embeddedness, characterized by trust and reciprocity, is widespread in organization-to-organization exchange. There remains, however, a tension between theorists who pose trust as an alternative logic to asocial price negotiations or contractual...
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Knowledge management and financial performance in transitional economies : the case of Serbian enterprises
Kavalić, Mila; Nikolić, Milan; Stanisavljev, Sanja; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 6, pp. 1436-1455
In this paper the impact and predictive effects of knowledge management on financial performance are analysed. The research also includes an analysis of the moderating effects of two moderators (National Origin and Enterprise Size) and their relationship. The data was gathered by interviewing...
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Human resources and business performance : findings, unanswered questions, and an alternative approach
Gerhart, Barry A. - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 16 (2005) 2, pp. 174-185
In 1996, Becker and Gerhart noted that much of the work on human resources (HR) and performance had traditionally been conducted at the individual level of analysis. However, in the 1990s, empirical research on HR and performance increasingly moved to the plant/unit and firm level of analysis...
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Methodology and traps
D'Alessandro, Michele - In: The performance of European business in the twentieth …, (pp. 21-32). 2016
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Review of business growth models : methodology and the assumption of determinism
Muhos, Matti - In: International journal of management & enterprise … 14 (2015) 4, pp. 288-306
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