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Financial Information for Decision Making: An Alternative Small Firm Perspective
Gibson, Brian - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 1 (1992) 3, pp. 221-232
Successful decision making in small firms requires the availability of financial information and its deployment in a … irregular use of financial information in small firm decision contexts. Rather than seeking to justify these departures within … provide an appropriate framework for the study of small firms. Financial information in this alternative framework is likely …
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Research in Small-Firm Entrepreneurial Finance: A Note on Developing a Paradigm
Petty, J. William - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 1 (1991) 1, pp. 89-90
There is an increased interest in small companies and entrepreneurship among academicians and policy makers. The melting of the cold war and the collapse of the socialist economies of the Soviet bloc, in combination with the interest of the affected countries in imitating some form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310292
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Small Business Capital Structure Choice
Schnabel, Jacques A. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 2 (1992) 1, pp. 13-21
A simple single-period model of entrepreneurial capital structure choice under conditions of informational asymmetry is developed. The uncertain terminal cash flow generated by a business venture is assumed to depend on both the amount of effort provided by the entrepreneur and the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310307
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Financing the Small Firm Start-Up: Determinants of Debt Use
Scherr, Frederick C.; Sugrue, Timothy F.; Ward, Janice B. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 3 (1993) 1, pp. 17-36
While academic research concerning capital structure of large corporations has been abundant in the finance literature, studies of small firms have been somewhat less common, and investigation of capital structure at origin (start-up) has been virtually nil. In this paper we present empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310325
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Research in Small-Firm Entrepreneurial Finance: A Note on Developing a Paradigm
Petty, J. William - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 1 (1991) 1, pp. 88-90
There is an increased interest in small companies and entrepreneurship among academicians and policy makers. The melting of the cold war and the collapse of the socialist economies of the Soviet bloc, in combination with the interest of the affected countries in imitating some form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790633
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Small Business Capital Structure Choice
Schnabel, Jacques A. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 2 (1992) 1, pp. 13-21
A simple single-period model of entrepreneurial capital structure choice under conditions of informational asymmetry is developed. The uncertain terminal cash flow generated by a business venture is assumed to depend on both the amount of effort provided by the entrepreneur and the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790725
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Financing the Small Firm Start-Up: Determinants of Debt Use
Scherr, Frederick C.; Sugrue, Timothy F.; Ward, Janice B. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 3 (1993) 1, pp. 17-36
While academic research concerning capital structure of large corporations has been abundant in the finance literature, studies of small firms have been somewhat less common, and investigation of capital structure at origin (start-up) has been virtually nil. In this paper we present empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790726
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Innovation in Large and Small Firms
Arrow, Kenneth J. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 2 (1993) 2, pp. 111-124
This essay is intended to begin the elaboration of a theme: the interaction between the observed sizes of firms and their internal decision making procedures. This theme is a major one in the symphony of entrepreneurial activity. The entrepreneur, as the maker and changer of economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310313
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SURVIVAL OF THE SMALL FIRM AND THE ENTREPRENEUR UNDER DEMAND AND EFFICIENCY UNCERTAINTY
Flores-Romero, Manuel G - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2004
The objective of this paper is to offer an answer to the question : why do some entrepreneurs wish to own another firm in the future after having closed an unsuccessful one? We first show this question is relevant because making use of a sample of entrepreneurs in the UK who have experienced a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005583098
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Innovation in Large and Small Firms
Arrow, Kenneth J. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 2 (1993) 2, pp. 111-124
This essay is intended to begin the elaboration of a theme: the interaction between the observed sizes of firms and their internal decision making procedures. This theme is a major one in the symphony of entrepreneurial activity. The entrepreneur, as the maker and changer of economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790615