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-in-the-field experiment comprised five behavioural games: dictator, bargaining, trust, public goods, and risk-preference elicitation. It was …
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finance. Trust is an important part of relationship banking. However, the term trust is nebulous,and relationship banking … means different things to different banksand different borrowers. How trust enablesthe credit market for SMEs through … relationship banking is largely unexplored. Using a unique primary dataset of SMEsin the UK, we construct a measure of trust …
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Generalized trust within regions represents an important firm resource. We provide empirical evidence on the impact of … trust among people in regions on innovation using two distinct data sets. The first one contains firm-level data and is used … to analyze how trust affects firm-level innovation in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The second data set is …
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A detailed survey of 498 high technology small and medium-sized enterprises in the Netherlands shows process innovation by user firms to be common practice. Fifty-four percent of these firms reported developing entirely novel process equipment or software for their own use and/or modifying...
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Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have been mainly described by the notion of a housebank and transactional features of long-term bank-customer relationships. In...
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We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
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