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The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification
Burchardi, Konrad B.; Hassan, Tarek A. - 2011
We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which individuals maintain for non-economic reasons can be an important determinant of regional economic growth. We show that West German households who have social ties to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601047
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Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success
Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Meder, Andreas - 2007
This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at the stage of firm formation. We distinguish between different kinds of experience an entrepreneur can possess and find evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263810
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Institutions, networks and entrepreneurship development in Russia: an exploration
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - 2006
In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia's informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional … entrepreneurial activity. Our results support the notion of the limited effectiveness of Russia's networks for supporting …
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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282600
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Choose your friends carefully : home-country ties and new venture internationalization
Prashantham, Shameen; Birkinshaw, Julian - In: Management international review : mir ; journal of … 55 (2015) 2, pp. 207-234
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Getting the right balance : University networks’ influence on spin-offs’ attraction of funding for innovation
Soetanto, Danny; Geenhuizen, Marina S. van - In: Technovation : the international journal of … 36/37 (2015), pp. 26-38
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Growth aspirations and social capital : young firms in a post-conflict environment
Efendic, Adnan; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Rebmann, Anna - In: International small business journal : researching … 33 (2015) 5, pp. 537-561
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Structural capital of university spin-out firms : the moderating role of university incubators
Hewitt-Dundas, Nola; Burns, Colm - In: University evolution, entrepreneurial activity and …, (pp. 71-95). 2016
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Determinants of entrepreneurship : is it all about the individual or the region?
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - In: International review of entrepreneurship : IRE 11 (2013) 3, pp. 55-78
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The role and contribution of networks in M&A of innovative ventures : can lessons learned from networks of Israeli start-ups be applied by China?
Dashti, Yossi; Schwartz, Dafna - In: Technology analysis & strategic management 27 (2015) 6, pp. 628-645
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