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Privatization and Entrepreneurial Performance in an Emerging Market : The Moderating Effect of Institutional Quality
Boudreaux, Christopher - 2019
We explore how institutional quality moderates the effectiveness of privatization on entrepreneurs' sales performance … develop a model of emerging market venture performance. Using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey of entrepreneurs in …. These findings suggest that the effectiveness of privatization on entrepreneurial performance is context-specific, which …
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Corporate Income Taxation, Leverage at Entry, and the Growth of Entrepreneurial Companies
Da Rin, Marco - 2019
We study whether corporate income taxation affects the long-term growth of newly incorporated companies through its effect on their choice of leverage at entry. We find that a decrease in corporate income taxation leads to a sizeable decrease in leverage at entry, and that the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895712
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David - 2019
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Why Do Entrepreneurs Refuse Venture Capital?
Croce, Annalisa - 2018
Despite the evidence on the positive effect of venture capital (VC) on portfolio firm performance, such evidence badly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936370
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Is It All About Who You Know? Prior Work Connections and Entrepreneurial Success
Tocoian, Oana (contributor) - 2018
This paper studies how prior professional connections among founding employees predict a new firm's short and medium term success. We apply three employment network measures to a large employer-employee matched Brazilian panel dataset, to find that network structures are strongly predictive of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937022
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The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics : A Review Towards a New View
Hessels, Jolanda - 2017
Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated. It is moreover also because there is no unified...
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Economic Calculation and the Limits of Social Entrepreneurship
McCaffrey, Matthew - 2017
The problem of economic calculation is relevant outside the extremes of purely for-profit enterprise and socialist central planning: calculation is also a vital lens through which to view alternative forms of economic organization in the market economy. This chapter examines one such example:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944954
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The Household Enterprise Sector in Ghana : Overview and Challenges
Turkson, Danny - 2020
Household Enterprises (HEs) have not received much consideration in the enterprise literature even though they are crucial for the development of an economy. These enterprises have been the main source of livelihood for most families in the informal sector and their contribution to reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824446
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Corporate Accelerator and Start-up Performance
Seitz, Nikolaus - 2019
evident, little is known about their efficacy and drivers of performance. Analyzing a hand-collected novel dataset containing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868249