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The global market has an impact on almost all Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), but the high-technology industry appears to be most affected by the changes coming about due to globalisation. The industry is confronted with shorter product life cycles, blurring of industry boundaries and not...
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Familiness has become widely accepted as the appropriate construct representing the unique bundle of resources arising out of family involvement in business. However as yet we do not fully understand the types of familiness or the conditions that give rise to them and as such familiness remains...
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We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation) and strategy (resource-based view) to develop an integrated model of transgenerational entrepreneurship. Following a review of...
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Market orientation has been cited as a source of competitive advantage that allows the firm to construct offerings superior to those of competitors by the effective collection and dissemination of and reaction to market intelligence. Previous work on market orientation has focused on the effort...
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interesting to understand the potential sources of competitive advantage in order to set upa successful strategy. The theory of …
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This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
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Transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe have already completed the initial stabilization reforms and initiated the process of accession to European political and economic structures. Nonetheless, consensus exists that transition reforms are not complete. The state continues to exhibit...
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Through the remarkable growth of over a decade China's rural industry has already become an important pillar of its national economy. The primary goal of this dissertation is to place China's rural industry in a historical and a market economic perspective in an efforts to link its rapid...
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This dissertation extends previous research on bubbles by investigating whether changes in the financial asset prices of the S&P500 reflect changes in fundamentals. We propose that if this is not the case the volatility is due to a bubble. Hence, this is the general hypothesis from which several...
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This thesis takes a theoretical and analytical look at the implicit prices of housing characteristics in a South Florida submarket. Chapter II analyzes some of the vast body of previous studies that employ Econometric Techniques. Chapter III presents the information revealed by an examination of...
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