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The German Mittelstand: antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model?
Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike - 2019
Whilst internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to emulate it, the current debate in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and non-innovative - in short: as a hindrance to Germany's...
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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...
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The impact of management practices on SME performance
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2018
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The impact of management practices on SME performance
Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment
Abbink, Klaus; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2002
This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of … a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract wording. Though the underlying context is heavily loaded with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263068
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Which is the More Predictable Gender? Public Good Contribution and Personality
Perugini, Marco; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2005
the context in which decisions are made. …
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Great expectations: The determinants of female university enrolment in Europe
Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara - 2011
on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two … 17-21 age group drawn from EU-Silc, available for the years 2004-2008. From the same survey we construct context … changes in the surrounding context. We find that the share of working women with children below 5 and the share of women with …
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Can (a football) community tackle climate change? A case study analysis of Ipswich Town Football Club's campaign to encourage pro-environmental behavioural change amongst its fans
Baldwin, Richard - 2010
Academics and policymakers claim that community-based organisations may be able to encourage individuals to adopt pro-environmental behavioural changes; however at present there is limited research-based evidence to support this assertion. This paper sets out to provide a contribution to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276527
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Towards a phronetic approach to pro-environmental behaviour: Seeking context, interaction and power in behaviour change processes
Hargreaves, Tom - 2010
This paper outlines and attempts to develop an original and innovative approach to research on pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) by, for the first time, applying Flyvbjerg´s (2001) call for the development of phronetic social science to this burgeoning empirical subject. Based on this novel...
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Context and interpretation in laboratory experiments: The case of reciprocity
Levati, Maria Vittoria; Miettinen, Topi; Rai, Birendra K. - 2010
The existing literature acknowledges that a mismatch between the experimenter's and the subjects' models of an experimental task can adversely affect the interpretation of data from laboratory experiments. We discuss why the two common experimental designs (between-subjects and within-subjects)...
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