Onderzoek naar de methoden voor de berekening van ontbrekende data. Het onderzoek poogt een antwoord te geven op de vraag hoe schattingen geprepareerd kunnen worden voor ontbrekende data in een datamatrix.

In the Netherlands, the political discussion on administrative burdens is still ongoing. To generate a more scientific background on this topic, in January 2003 a PhD thesis was published, titled 'Dancing with the Octopus; information obligations of enterprises in the social constitutional state...

This paper classifies Dutch innovative SMEs into four clusters with similar innovation patterns: supplier-dominated, client-driven, science-based and input-intensive firms. The classification is compiled using some new indicators that are particularly relevant to innovation in SMEs. We used the...

Overzicht van theoretische factoren die belangrijk zijn bij het verklaren van schaalgrootte van bedrijven en verschillen in schaalgrootte tussen vergelijkbare bedrijven. Naast de theoretische factoren worden enkele relevante trends beschreven en wordt gekeken naar de impact van deze trends op de...

The present paper provides a theoretical framework of the relationship between the rate of entrepreneurship and national economic performance. The first part deals with some aspects of the recent economics literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business on the one hand,...

This study focuses on the prediction of three firm performance indicators, sales growth, innovation performance and profitability, on a sample of small and medium-sized firms in the Netherlands. Predictions from agency theory and the resource based view of organizations lead to alternate...

The objective of this study is to contribute to the debate on the relationship between strategy and firm performance, especially for SMEs. The research questions are: Can different strategic groups of SMEs be identified and to what extent does the selected strategy influence the firm performance...

Studie naar de vraag hoeveel eigenaren van kleine bedrijven minder personeel in dienst hebben dan ze werkelijk nodig hebben, en de verklarende factoren voor dit verschijnsel. Uit gegevens van meer dan 3000 Nederlandse kleinbedrijven blijkt dat ongeveer 18% minder personeel in dienst heeft dan...

Several noted surveys on intra-industry dynamics have reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. There are compelling reasons to doubt whether these findings hold for the services....

Worldwide, less favourable business cycles caused a 25% decline in start-up entrepreneurship, as revealed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2002, a project in which EIM participated as well. As for The Netherlands, declining entrepreneurship levels were not caused by fading intentions to...