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The Effects of Gender on Small Businesses: A Case Study of Kasigau, Kenya
Abell, Leslie; Daday, Jerry - 2008
Small businesses are seen as an agent of economic growth in developing countries. Recently, the idea of micro-lending has received increased attention due to its promising effects on employment and personal economic growth in rural developing areas. However, we lack an in depth understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466943
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Making Economic Sense Out of Unisex Life Insurance (Or the Difference Between Cost and Value and Why It Matters to Real People)
Booth, Richard A., Marbury Research Professor of Law - 2002
In this piece, I take issue with one of the fundamental tenets of law and economics as it has been used to justify gender discrimination in the pricing of life insurance and annuities, namely, that individuals should bear their own identifiable costs so as to avoid misallocation of society's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432041
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The gender gap in bank credit access
Andrés Alonso, Pablo de; Gimeno Nogués, Ricardo; … - 2019
We use a sample of over 80,000 Spanish companies started by a sole entrepreneur between 2004 and 2014, and distinguish between male and female entrepreneurs demand for credit, credit approval ratio, and credit performance. We fi nd that female entrepreneurs who start a business are less likely...
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Optimistic Managers & Their Influence on Productivity & Employee Engagement in a Technology Organization
Greenberg, Margaret H; Arakawa, Dana - 2006
manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438614
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Key Factors for Reaching the Top of the Corporate Ladder
Sinkus, Nicholas - 2007
Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … interview senior level managers and executives within local companies and see what their experience and success has taught them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450224
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What do managers do during major organisational change
Jones, Michael L. - 2010
Management texts have long been prescriptive regarding management practice, recommending managers do this, and managers … gone into the field to observe just what managers actually do. Change management literature tends to be prescriptive … empirical information discussing what effective change managers actually do. This paper aims to present empirical data from a …
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Der Arbeitsmarkt für besonders qualifizierte Fach- und Führungskräfte : Jahresbericht 2003
Arbeitsmarktinformationsstelle der ZAV, Zentralstelle … - 2004
Dieser Bericht über den Arbeitsmarkt für hoch qualifizierte Fach- und Führungskräfte in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland …
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Der Arbeitsmarkt für besonders qualifizierte Fach- und Führungskräfte : Jahresbericht 2002
Arbeitsmarktinformationsstelle der ZAV, Zentralstelle … - 2003
Dieser Bericht über den Arbeitsmarkt für hoch qualifizierte Fach- und Führungskräfte in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449368
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Careers and career patterns of international managers
Torsten Biemann - 2008
Bei zunehmender Internationalisierung ergeben sich für Unternehmen vermehrte Koordinationserfordernisse zwischen dem Stammhaus im Inland und den verschiedenen Auslandsgesellschaften. Die Auslandsentsendung von Führungskräften ist ein möglicher Weg, diesen Erfordernissen erfolgreich zu...
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MOTIVE FÜR DEN KAUF EINER HEIZUNG - ERGEBNISSE EINER VERBRAUCHERBEFRAGUNG MIT DEM SCHWERPUNKT "HOLZPELLETHEIZUNGEN"
Decker, Thomas - 2007
Paper prepared for presentation at the 7th Industrieforum PelletsStuttgart (Germany), 10th October 2007 …Compared to other heating markets the wood pellets market is quite young and small in Germany. Nevertheless it is a … within the scope of this project. Therefore people in different parts of Germany have been asked about their heating system …
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