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Staffing Practices in Australian ICT Micro-Firms: growing virtual?

Twyoniak, Stephane; Burrows, Terrena M. - 2007

Human Resource Management (HRM) research, theory and practice overwhelming views the staffing of firms as a series of discrete functional activities, such as recruitment, selection and training. In this study, we investigate how organisation theory, specifically transaction cost economics (TCE),...

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From the Informal to the Formal Sector: Micro-enterprises in a developing economy – research in progress

Dalglish, Carol L. - 2007

" entrepreneurship to ongoing participation in the formal economy. A number of the entrepreneurs who participated in this research had …

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The performance of young firms: patterns of evolution in the growth-profitability space

Steffens, Paul R.; Davidsson, Per; Fitzsimmons, Jason R. - 2006

The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the evolution of small firm performance. We do so by studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both growth and profitability are important dimensions of...

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Growth and Profitability in Small and Medium Sized Australian Firms

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Steffens, Paul R.; Douglas, Evan J. - 2005

This study investigated the longitudinal behaviour of growth rates and profitability for a large sample of Australian firms. Similar to previous studies, growth rates were found to be much more volatile than profitability measures. Using a regression equation with lagged profit and growth...

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Transitions towards an Entrepreneurial Economy: A Case study based investigation of the SME Internationalization Process

Cruz-Carreon, Gilbert - 2007

This study seeks to make a theoretical contribution to the rapidly growing field of International Entrepreneurship by …

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SME Internationalization Processes in a Transitioning Entrepreneurial Economy

Cruz-Carreon, Gilbert - 2006

International entrepreneurship with a specific focus on the process of internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs …

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What entrepreneurship research can do for business and policy practice

Davidsson, Per - 2002

This article discusses the problem of making practical use of research on entrepreneurship. The introduction deals with … differences can be bridged. Regarding entrepreneurship research specifically it is argued in the following section that there are … side are also to blame. In the next section it is suggested that entrepreneurship research can actually do "A lot of harm …

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Smallness, newness, and regional development

Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998

increasing GNP, rapid employment growth in the private service sector, and very low levels of unemployment in most regions. While …

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The Myth of the Entrepreneurial Economy : Employment and Innovation in Small Firms

Parker, Rachel L. - 2001

stabilisation or decline in public employment (Ebbinghaus and Visser 1999: 141-142). Technological changes have transformed … reference to available data and international research evidence on employment generation, conditions of work and innovation in … to large firms in any general sense because most small firms are not innovative, do not contribute to employment growth …

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The Simple Analytics of the Principle-Agent Incentive Contract

Douglas, Evan J. - 1989

The traditional theory of the firm, as presented in virtually all economics textbooks, implicitly treats the firm as an owner-managed, or entrepreneurial, entity. In reality, ownership and control of the firm are often separated. The consequent delegation of tasks and information asymmetry lead...

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