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The interplay of human and social capital in shaping entrepreneurial performance : the case of Vietnam
Santarelli, Enrico; Hien Thu Tran - 2012
This study investigates the effects of human capital, social capital and their interaction on the performance of 1 … new-firm performance. …
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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
larger stream of social benefits than industry startups, a performance premium. This paper outlines the arguments why the … existence of a performance premium using a sample of German startup companies. We find that university spinoffs exhibit a … performance premium of 3.4 percentage points higher employment growth over industry startups. The analysis also shows that the …
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Employment Growth in Newly Established Firms - Is There Evidence for Academic Entrepreneur's Human Capital Depreciation?
Mueller, Kathrin - 2013
This paper contributes to the literature of academic entrepreneurship by investigating the effect of a possible depreciation of academic knowledge after leaving the university. The possibility of a person's human capital depreciation has up to now mainly been used to explain forgone earnings due...
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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms
Grilli, Luca; Jensen, Paul H.; Murtinu, Samuele - 2014
ventures’ performance. More specifically, we empirically explore the impact of entrepreneurs’ human capital on a firm’s sales … growth performance by disentangling the effect of the stock of human capital possessed at foundation from the potential …
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Assessing the determinants of fast growth in Italy
Arrighetti, A.; Lasagni, A. - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Parma - 2010
is important to understand their performance at sectoral level. Moreover, our findings show that financial constraints …
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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that 'scientific absorptive capacity' at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not necessarily...
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The development process of rural informal industries in developing countries: the case of Bangladesh
Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul; Sonobe, Tetsushi - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 2, pp. 229-249
entrepreneurs, and the performance of enterprises. …
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Determinants of business and financial network formation by Japanese start-up firms: Does founder’s human capital matter?
Okamuro, Hiroyuki; Ikeuchi, Kenta - Center for Interfirm Network, Institute of Economic Research - 2012
opportunity and external resources are essential for the post-entry performance of start-ups. However, previous studies have …
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
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Review of family business definitions: Cluster approach and implications of heterogeneous application for family business research
Harms, Henrik - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 2 (2014) 3, pp. 280-314
This review article displays several attempts to define family businesses as well as a systematization approach to get new insights about the relationship between family business definitions and their application under different conditions such as legal framework, culture or regional...
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