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The influence of political characteristics on the relationship between family control and firm performance : a meta-analytical approach
Lohwasser, Todor Stefan; Hoch, Felix - 2019
This multilevel meta-analytic study, based on 176 studies from 36 countries, examines the impact of political characteristics on the performance of family firms when comparing them to non-family firms (k=311, N=1,598,964). Our findings support the expectation that family firm characteristics are...
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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation
Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009
Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794055
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Cluster activities in different institutional environments : case studies of ICT-clusters from Austria, Germany, Ukraine and Serbia : presented at: 56th ERSA Congress, 23 to 27 Aug...
Konstantynova, Anastasiia; Lehmann, Tine - 2016
In recent decades industrial clusters and agglomerations were recognized as drivers of regional and often national … mapping, establishment of institutions (labelled as cluster initiative/ association) in respective clusters through public … influenced by different sets of institutional framework conditions. Information and communication technologies (ICT) clusters and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882528
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Passion and compassion as strategic drivers for sustainable value creation : an ordonomic perspective on social and ecological entrepreneurship
Beckmann, Markus; Pies, Ingo; Winning, Alexandra von - 2012
Passion - in the sense of fervent commitment to action - and compassion - understood as sensitive openness for social and ecological concerns - are not a sure formula for business success. Whether social or ecological entrepreneurs, who find themselves under pressure from market competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784179
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Aktuelle Forschung in der Gartenbauökonomie : Tagungsband zum 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche Göttingen
Dirksmeyer, Walter (ed.); Theuvsen, Ludwig (ed.);  … - 2015
Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die Veranstaltung...
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Doing safe by doing good : ESG investing and corporate social responsibility in the U.S. and Europe
Bannier, Christina E.; Bofinger, Yannik; Rock, Björn - 2019
This paper examines the profitability of investing according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in the U.S. and Europe. Based on data from 2003 to 2017, we show that a portfolio long in stocks with the highest ESG scores and short in those with the lowest scores yields a...
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Assessing the sustainable nature of housing-related taxation receipts : the case of Ireland
Addison-Smyth, Diarmaid; McQuinn, Kieran - 2015
Even by international standards, Ireland's fiscal position was particularly affected by the recent financial crisis. As budgetary surpluses quickly gave way to significant deficits post 2007, the deterioration in the Irish public finances culminated in an Excessive Deficit Procedure being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526535
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Foreign direct investment, domestic investment and green growth in Nigeria : any spillovers?
Adejumo, Akintoye Victor; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
Lag (ARDL) and Granger causality estimates. Also, the study articulates the prospects for growth sustainability via …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115869
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A comparison between sustainability frameworks : an integrated reading through ESG criteria for business strategies and enterprise risk management
Casciotti, Paola - 2023
Reporting to Sustainability Reporting, impose to pay attention to new criteria and contents, also in order to distinguish … Sustainability, like the institutional ones (MDG, SDG, BES) and one of the most widespread standard of non financial reporting … SDGs, to implement coherent public and enterprise's policies and to produce realistic sustainability reports. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391219
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Complementary alliances with endogenous fleets and load factors
Czerny, Achim Ingo; Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; … - 2015
This paper analyzes the effect of carrier collaboration on fleet capacity, fleet structures in terms of the number and the size of vehicles, and load factors. The model features complementary networks, scheduling, price elastic demands, and demand uncertainty. For the case of a given number of...
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