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Urban systems, and regions more generally, are the epicenters of many of today's social issues. Yet they are also the global drivers of technological innovation and thus it is critical that we understand their vulnerabilities and what makes them resilient to different types of shocks. We take...
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This chapter searches for common fertile ground between the disciplines of family business studies and regional studies. Most existing studies linking both disciplines are fragmented and dispersed, thereby obstructing a systematic assessment of the cross fertilisation of knowledge. Based on...
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This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies,...
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There is both a practical and a scholarly need for the thorough examination of the nexus between family firms and economic spaces (e.g. locations, places, landscapes). The authors address this nexus through two approaches. First, they explore economic spaces’ effect on family firms by...
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Urban systems, and regions more generally, are the epicenters of many of today's social issues. Yet they are also the global drivers of technological innovation and thus it is critical that we understand their vulnerabilities and what makes them resilient to different types of shocks. We take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518517
policy instruments. In conventional models interactions are indirect, but agent-based modeling (ABM) allow simulating a … clusters structure and performance in stochastic terms thus enabling a better assessment of policy outcomes taking into account … better assessment of both policy outcomes and the certainty about the results. …
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. However, this effect is non-linear. Significant heterogeneity in policy effects is also detected. The impacts are different …, cross-policy effects are found. We use improved measurement of policy treatment while accounting for possible spillover …
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the policy implications of microenterprises and economic growth. Policy implications are that blanket statements about how …
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economic policy. …
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location, and economic growth; but it has emerged in three distinct threads. These threads have variously emphasized how policy … and natural amenities affect regional economic growth, employment growth, or firm location; how variations in policy and …
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