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Firm reputation and employee startups
Zábojník, Ján - 2016
This paper studies a repeated-game model in which firms can build a reputation for rewarding innovative employees. In any Pareto efficient equilibrium, low-value innovations get developed in established firms, while high-value innovations get developed in startups. The threshold level can be...
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Does Bank Size Matter in Financing Small Business Innovation?
Dalla Pellegrina, Lucia - 2013
Using data at the bank‐firm level for a large sample of small firms collected through the 8th UniCredit Survey conducted in 2011, we investigate the extent to which banks of different size reward more innovative firms, in terms of both access to lending and volume of credit granted. First we...
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Transfer of know-how to small and mid-size businesses in Georgia : White paper: Georgia
Grigolia, Maya; Labadze, Lasha; Minarik, Pavol; … - 2015
The report summarizes the conditions of the small and medium size enterprises (SME) sector in Georgia, identiies main problems in their development and provides recommendations for further interventions based on the Czech experience, research of existing literature and own survey among SME...
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Internet-Based Entrepreneurial Finance : Lessons from Germany
Hornuf, Lars - 2018
The Internet-based crowdinvesting market in Europe has developed significantly since its start in 2007 and has become an alternative source of finance for entrepreneurs to sell securities through the Internet to small investors. This market evidences a great variety in platform design and...
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Seeding New Ventures - Green Thumbs and Fertile Fields : Individual and Environmental Drivers of Informal Investment
Szerb, Laacute;szloacute - 2014
This study explores individual and country-level environmental drivers of informal quot;seedquot; investment. We examine four types of informal investors based on business ownership experience (or no such experience) and close family relationship with investee (or no such relationship):...
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Financial strategies for long-term success in women-owned small businesses
Dyer, Melissa Renee - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 23 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
Failure of small businesses many times is because of poor implementation of long-term financial strategies. Women small business owners face many challenges in financing their small businesses because they may not have a financial plan. Interviews with 11 women small business owners in Cleveland...
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Financing of small and medium scale enterprises and its growth impact in Nigeria
Onyeiwu, Charles; Muoneke, Obumneke Bob; Nkoyo, Udo - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 22 (2020) 2, pp. 1-19
We examined the extent to which SMEs financing influenced economic growth in Nigeria through the use of time … SMEs did not retain the massive effect on growth as seen in previous studies. We can attribute this to our choice of … recommendations to the Federal Government and the apex bank are; capital inflows vis-à-vis affordable local loans to SMEs at single …
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The effects of COVID-19 on U.S. small businesses: evidence from owners, managers, and employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
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Young enterprises and bank credit denials
Mascia, Danilo V. - 2018
By employing a sample of 20,956 observations of non-financial SMEs headquartered in the Euro area, between 2009 and … are particularly difficult for young SMEs located in Southern and Central Europe, as well as for those operating in the …
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Blockchain for SME Finance : Call for Empirical Testing
Yesseleva-Pionka, Mariya - 2021
For many countries worldwide, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the backbones of their economy, more than half of … the overall world population is working for SMEs. Historically, research studies on SME lending have emphasised that SMEs …-managed and privately owned. Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), also known as a blockchain, opens new opportunities to SMEs. It …
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