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Firm Closure, Financial Losses and the Consequences for an Entrepreneurial Restart
Metzger, Georg - 2008
Many entrepreneurs who close a business are actually willing to venture anew. However, to realize a restart is not only a matter of willingness on the part of the entrepreneur but also of its feasibility. Regarding the feasibility of a restart, the aspect of capital acquisition might be...
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Young, open and international: the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures
Zimmermann, Jörg; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2009
Young firms with the ability to internationalize early and decisively have received much attention in recent academic discussion. However, relatively little is known about the underlying processes that enable them to skip several stages of the internationalization process. We contribute to this...
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Is there a trade-off between academic research and faculty entrepreneurship? Evidence from U.S. NIH supported biomedical researchers
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2009
Is there a trade-off of scholarly research productivity when faculty members found or join for-profit firms? This paper offers an empirical examination of this question for a subpopulation of biomedical academic scientists who received research funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health...
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Founder's human capital, entry strategies and start-up size
Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Kathrin; Niefert, Michaela - 2009
This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of new born firms' initial size. As survival prospects of young firms tend to be linked to a firm's start-up size, a better understanding of the factors influencing start-up size is crucial. Most of the rare literature on initial firm size focuses...
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Employment growth in newly established firms: is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?
Müller, Kathrin - 2009
Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regard to entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299175
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Returns to private equity: idiosyncratic risk does matter!
Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
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Does interdisciplinarity lead to higher employment growth of academic spinoffs?
Müller, Bettina - 2009
Does heterogeneity in the educational backgrounds of the founders matter for firm success? Are team foundations more successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is measured by employment growth. I find that team...
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Returns to private equity: idiosyncratic risk does matter!
Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299837
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Strategische Gruppen und Staatskapazität: Das Beispiel der Privatunternehmer in China
Heberer, Thomas - 2002
transformatorischen und strategischen Potenziale eingeht. Schließlich wird erörtert, in welcher Weise Unternehmer Staatskapazität … Kapazität beiträgt bzw. beitragen. Die Strategie der Unternehmer ist dabei interessengeleitet in dem Sinne, dass sie im … transformatorischen Potenzials der strategischen Gruppe(n) Unternehmer untersucht, ehe Rückschlüsse auf die Bedeutung des Agierens der …
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