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An impact evaluation of a fund to finance innovation in SMEs

Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan Antonio - In: Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración 29 (2016) 1, pp. 20-43

Costa Rica. El Propyme busca incrementar la capacidad innovadora de las pequeñas y medidas empresas (pymes) costarricenses …. Diseño/metodológico el impacto se ha estimado y evaluado asumiendo que las pymes beneficiaras buscan maximizar sus beneficios …

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Organizational effects and labor behavior of domestic violence

Castro-Gonzáles, Segundo J.; Arias Díaz, Orquídea; … - In: Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración 29 (2016) 4, pp. 419-434

pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) de servicio al cliente, sobre las manifestaciones y los comportamientos observables con … seleccionó una muestra de 73 dueños/gerentes de pymes; como herramienta de recolección de datos se utilizó una encuesta con 44 … siguiente: 1) entre las manifestaciones más frecuentes de violencia doméstica en las pymes de servicio al cliente, existen …

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Business environment and property management issues

Dettwiler, Paul; Lindelöf, Peter; Löfsten, Hans - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 8 (2006) 3, pp. 120-133

Purpose – What effect do different business environments, caused primarily by changes in GDP, have on property management of growth firms? Design/methodology/approach – This paper investigates the dynamic effects of two successive periods on property management variables with data from 387...

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On the financial drivers and implications of leasing real estate assets

Lasfer, Meziane - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 9 (2007) 2, pp. 72-96

Purpose – This paper aims to contrast the financial costs and benefits of leasing, rather than owning real estate … assets. Design/methodology/approach – The main argument is that leasing is beneficial. The hypothesis is tested using a total … valuation as leasing propensity is strongly leasing propensity is not linear, but an inverse U‐shaped, suggesting that the …

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Break strategy – the key to breaking out

Cooke, Howard; Woodhead, Simon - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 10 (2008) 2, pp. 110-120

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the problem caused by the operation of break clauses contained in commercial leases – a predominantly UK phenomenon, a consequence of longer lease terms. Design/methodology/approach – The pitfalls that can befall a corporate occupier are...

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Owning vs leasing of real properties in the Swedish public sector

Lind, Hans; Lundström, Stellan - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 12 (2010) 3, pp. 175-184

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of a number of studies about owning vs leasing in the … Swedish public sector and relate this to more general determinants of the choice between owning and leasing. Design … have been a number of “rational” reasons for moving from owning to leasing: primarily better risk allocation and more …

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Commercial service charge management: benchmarking best practice

Eccles, Timothy; Holt, Andrew; Zatolokina, Anastasia - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 13 (2011) 4, pp. 200-215

Purpose – The paper benchmarks compliance for 2010‐2011 with the RICS Code of Practice for Commercial Service Charges 2006. Design/methodology/approach – Whether the proxy adopted is measured by floorspace or number of commercial office buildings, the sample size conforms to Kreycie and...

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An empirical examination of automobile lease vs finance motivational processes

Trocchia, Philip J.; Beatty, Sharon E. - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 20 (2003) 1, pp. 28-43

’ motivations for leasing, rather than financing, products. A two‐phase study was conducted in the retail automotive industry in … order to ascertain motives for consumer leasing. It was found that while all hypothesized motives were predictors of the …

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Estimating the call option values embedded in closed‐end automobile leases

White, John B. - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 13 (1996) 3, pp. 19-26

Believes that a feature of most closed‐end automobile leases is the right to purchase the car for a specified price at the termination of the lease. This characteristic of a closed‐end autombile lease is similar to a European call option and is transferred to the lessee at no explicit...

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Changing practice in accounting for service charges in commercial property

Holt, Andrew; Eccles, Timothy; Bond, Peter - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8 (2012) 2, pp. 186-209

Purpose – The paper examines how accounting practice changes, which forces generate change, and the role of a best practice benchmark within this. It examines this process of change within service charge accounting in commercial property. The purpose of this paper is to establish that...

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