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Is there a linear relationship between R&D intensity and growth? Empirical evidence of non-high-tech vs. high-tech SMEs
Nunes, Paulo Maçãs; Serrasqueiro, Zélia; Leitão, João - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 36-53
To investigate whether there is a similar relationship between R&D intensity and growth in high-tech and non-high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we examine two samples of SMEs in manufacturing industries, applying the two-step estimation method. Our findings are that R&D...
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Innovative start-up patenting: a new approach towards identification and determinants
Wolf, Tina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...
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Capital Constraints and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms in Vietnam
Tran, Hien Thu; Santarelli, Enrico - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2013
decades in Vietnam. This paper addresses for Vietnam the questions “how capital constraints affect the performance of family … adverse effect of capital constraints on firm performance: firms suffering capital constraints perform substantially better … in relaxing capital constraints and improves the entrepreneurial performance, whereas the effect of social capital …
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La evolución de los mayores negocios familiares en España (1964-2010). Nuevas fuentes, nuevos métodos, nuevos resultados
Pérez, Paloma Fernández - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2013
Los negocios familiares son la forma dominante de propiedad empresarial. Sin embargo, apenas existe reflexión crítica sobre metodologías apropiadas para estudiarlos de forma agregada, en una perspectiva de largo plazo, y a reducir este vacío se dirige el presente trabajo. Se propone una...
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Job Creation and the Intra-distribution Dynamics of the Firm Size Distribution
Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2012
Based on a three equations model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth we estimate firm-specific transition probabilities between size classes of the firm size distribution. This allows to analyze counterfactual scenarios that assess the impact of changes in exogenous variables on the...
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Who Creates Jobs? Estimating Job Creation Rates at the Firm Level
Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2013
This paper analyzes econometric models of the Davis, Haltiwanger and Schuh (1996) job creation rate. In line with the most recent job creation literature, we focus on employment-weighted OLS estimation. Our main theoretical result reveals that employment-weighted OLS estimation of DHS job...
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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs through the Business Cycle
Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2011
We construct a simple model of occupational choice among agents with differing abilities. The fraction of agents creating new businesses who are low ability rises during recessions. Thus, cohorts born during recessions are on average lower quality: their businesses yield lower initial earnings,...
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Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William; Goswami, Grover - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...
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Survival of born global firms – do employee characteristics matter for survival?
Halldin, Torbjörn - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
This paper investigates whether employee characteristics matter for firm survival. The focus of the paper is on born global firms both within the manufacturing and KIBS industries. A Cox proportional hazard model is implemented to find hazard ratios of the included employee and control...
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Born global firms in knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) – what do we know of their performance?
Halldin, Torbjörn - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
This paper studies the performance of KIBS firms that are aimed for global markets from inception. Despite the … robust to a finer array of born global definitions and time horizons of firm performance. …
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