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How small printing firms alleviate impact of pandemic crisis? : identifying configurations of successful strategies with fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
Suder, Marcin; Kusa, Rafał; Duda, Joanna; Dunska, Margarita - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 10 (2022) 2, pp. 61-80
impact of the COVID-19 crisis. We test six strategies (namely, entrepreneurial, market penetration, market development … lead to performance during the current pandemic crisis. Research Design & Methods: This is a quantitative study that uses … three market conditions; namely, non-crisis, the initial phase of the crisis, and the advanced phase of the crisis. The …
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Survival, growth, and interfirm collaboration of start-up companies in high-technology industries : a case study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001
the time of foundation and the legal form of the limited company reduce the risk of exit. The growth of employment in … sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403326
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Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries : A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2021
the time of foundation and the legal form of the limited company reduce the risk of exit. The growth of employment in … sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320835
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Survival, growth, and interfirm collaboration of start-up companies in high-technology industries: a case study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001
the time of foundation and the legal form of the limited company reduce the risk of exit. The growth of employment in … sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001623730
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The Relationship between Firm Births and Job Creation
van Stel, André; Storey, David - 2002
employment growth has previously been examined either with no time-lag or with only a short period lag. The current paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324987
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The Effect of Ownership and Competitive Pressure on Firm Performance in Transition Countries. Micro Evidence from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland
Estrin, Saul; Konings, Jozef; Zolkiewski, Zbigniew; … - 2001
This paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Domestic competitive pressure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313417
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Merge or fail? The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995-2000
Buehler, Stefan; Kaiser, Christian; Jaeger, Franz - 2005
macroeconomic conditions. Our results support the notion that mergers are often undertaken to seize growth opportunities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315602
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Domestic versus Cross-Border Acquisitions: Which Impact on the Target Frims' Performance?
Bertrand, Olivier; Zitouna, Habib - 2005
This paper investigates the effects of horizontal acquisitions on the performance of target firms in the 1990's. Using French manufacturing firm-level data, we examine two main indicators of performance: the profit and the productive efficieny. We distinguish domestic from cross-in-difference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320125
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Buying to Sell: A Theory of Buyouts
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2010
Private equity owned firms have more leverage, more intense compensation contracts, and higher productivity than comparable firms. We develop a theory of buyouts in oligopolistic markets that explains these facts. Private equity firms are more aggressive in inducing restructuring compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320382
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The firm size distribution and inter-industry diversification
Hutchinson, John; Konings, Jozef; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2009
We show that the stylized facts of the Firm Size Distribution (FSD) by age cohorts, as shown in Cabral and Mata (2003), bind within 4-digit manufacturing industries in the UK and Belgium. As in Klepper and Thompson (2006) and Sutton (1998), we explore whether time to build a portfolio of...
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