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Small Business Owner Race, Liquidity, and Survival
Farrell, Diana - 2020
The contributions of the small businesses sector to the U.S. economy are often noted in periods of economic growth, and the fragility of the sector is a core focus of policy in an economic downturn. The sector is important not only because of its contributions to job growth, real economic...
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Entrepreneurial Orientation, Innovation and SME Performance : A Study of SMEs in Malaysia using PLS-SEM
Kee, Daisy Mui Hung - 2020
Objective - Despite extensive research on Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and innovation and performance, there are still limited resources on how these areas benefit Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). There are various financial aids and support services that are provided to SMEs. Despite...
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Getting the facts right on born globals
Ferguson, Shon; Henrekson, Magnus; Johannesson, Louise - 2018
Policymakers in several countries have recently taken steps to promote the rapid export expansion of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal of these policies has been to create successful export-intensive firms, which are often referred to as born globals. These measures are...
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Exporting a bit faster : the long-run performance of born globals in computing
Ferguson, Shon; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018
Policymakers in several countries have recently taken steps to promote the rapid export expansion of high-tech small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The goal of these policies has been to create successful export-intensive firms, which are often referred to as born globals. To the best of...
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Business takeovers and firm growth : empirical evidence from a German panel
Habermann, Harald - 2017
The present article links business takeovers to the literature on serial autocorrelation of growth rates. The aim of the study is to identify the effects of successions on the performance of small German firms by analysing the growth pathways over a period of eight years after business takeover....
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The Determinants of New Firms’ Export Performance
Vettas, Nikolaos; Giotopoulos, Ioannis; Valavanioti, … - 2022
The goal of this study is to explore the potential determinants of the post-entry export performance of new firms operating in Greek manufacturing and services industries. We track a large sample of new firms established during the period 2000-2004 and we analyse the drivers of export...
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Does entrepreneurial risk-taking affect the business performance of micro-enterprises? : evidence from Skikda in Algeria
Messikh, Ayoub - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 68 (2022) 2, pp. 65-77
According to several previous studies, entrepreneurial risk-taking is an important aspect that can lead to prospective business opportunities, hence improving entrepreneurial outcomes such as enterprise performance. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the extent and degree of impact of...
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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Brazil
Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...
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The impact of capital structure on bank performance in emerging markets : empirical evidence from GCC countries
Khan, Shoaib - In: Financial internet quarterly 18 (2022) 1, pp. 56-65
' performance and capital structure choices. This study adds the empirical evi- dence on association between capital structure and …
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How long do external capital constraints matter? : a study based on Swiss data for the start-up cohort 1996 - 97
Stucki, Tobias - 2009
availability of new external capital. In this study we analyze the impact of financial constraints on the performance of Swiss … whether the effect of the availability of external capital on firm performance changes with increasing age of the firms. To … measure the impact of external capital as a whole, we include separate indicators for debt and venture capital constraints …
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