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Social Public Purchasing : Addressing a Critical Void in Public Purchasing Research
Hafsa, Fatima; Darnall, Nicole; Bretschneider, Stuart - 2022
Since governments are the largest buyers globally, they have enormous purchasing power. Government purchasing, therefore, has potential to be leveraged to improve social outcomes, such as helping disadvantaged communities, ensuring labor rights, and minimizing negative environmental impacts....
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Financing micro firms in Europe : an empirical analysis
Masiak, Christian; Block, Jörn; Moritz, Alexandra; … - 2017
The vast majority of firms in Europe are micro firms. Still, we know little about their financing patterns. Our paper aims to close this gap. Based on a large European firm-level data set, we find that micro firms differ in their financing patterns from small and medium-sized companies. Our...
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SME access to public procurement : an analysis of the experiences of SMEs supplying the publicly funded UK heritage sector
Loader, Kim; Norton, Sophie - In: Journal of purchasing and supply management 21 (2015) 4, pp. 241-250
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Going Private and Innovation
Demir, Tolga - 2019
In this paper, we investigate how going private affects corporate innovation activities. We compare the innovation … activities of firms that went private to the innovation activities of firms that received a going-private offer but stayed as … public for reasons unrelated to innovation. Using patent-based metrics, we find that the scale of innovation grows after …
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On the contribution of public procurement to entrepreneurship and small business policy
Preuss, Lutz - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 23 (2011) 9/10, pp. 787-814
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The art and the science in winning public-sector e-procurement contracts particularly by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
White-Hunt, Keith; Norman, Philip; Norman, Charlotte - In: European journal of public procurement markets : EJPPM 1 (2018), pp. 85-91
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Housing Collateral and Small Firm Activity in Europe
Banerjee, Ryan - 2016
We investigate the importance of the housing-based collateral lending channel on firm borrowing, investment and employment. We focus on small firms in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. To identify a credit supply effect, as opposed to a home-equity driven demand effect, we compare...
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Exploring external finance links to build back better a green UK SME economy : small grant longitudinal small business survey (LSBS) report to Enterprise Research Centre (ESRC)
Owen, Robyn; Lodh, Suman; Plekhanov, Sergei; Anwar, Osman - 2022
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Land of the Free, Home of the (Un)Regulated : Public Procurement in the EU and the USA
Hoffmann, Leif - 2010
Scholars tend to assume that in terms of institutional shape the US is generally more hierarchical and centralized than the EU and in terms of market integration the former is more of a single free market than the latter in the sense of fewer allowable trade restraints. This paper, however, in...
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Public Procurement Financial Thresholds in the EU and Their Relationship with the GPA
Telles, Pedro - 2016
The regulation of procurement within the European Union is binary: above certain financial thresholds, contracts are subject to full EU regulation, whereas below they are only subject to national rules (in general). First introduced in the 1970s, the financial thresholds are arbitrary without a...
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