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State-based conflict and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence
Naudé, Wim; Amorós, Ernesto; Brück, Tilman - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the existing literature, we formulate two hypotheses: (1) state-based conflict has a negative association with productive and opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a...
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Small-medium enterprise formation and Nigerian economic growth
Adeosun, Oluyemi Theophilus; Shittu, Ayodele Ibrahim - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 7 (2022) 4, pp. 286-301
Purpose This study examines the nexus between entrepreneurship through small-medium enterprise (SME) business formation … parameters including, registered small and medium scale enterprise, nominal gross domestic product, employment, total labor force …-run correlation. Findings The result shows an increasing number of SME formation which has also led to the growth of the economy …
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New small firms and dimension of economic performance
Shaffer, Sherrill; Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 29 (2015) 1, pp. 65-78
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New small firms and dimensions of economic performance
Shaffer, Sherrill; Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - 2009
economic performance measures encompassing levels, volatilities and growth rates of several income and employment variables …
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Characteristics and performance of new firms and spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - 2012 - Date of this version: 7 February 2012
types of new firms, particularly if their parent firm continues to operate. A novel findings is that the rate of employment … single owner. -- Sweden ; spinoffs ; new firm formation ; entrepreneurship ; performance ; employment growth …
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The relationship between start-ups, market mobility and employment growth : an empirical analysis for Dutch region
Koster, Sierdjan; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2010
model at the region-sector level for the Netherlands, where regional economic development (employment growth) is explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170064
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and the Role of Small Firms : Firm-Level Evidence for the UK
Hijzen, Alexander; Upward, Richard; Wright, Peter W - 2007
destruction relative to their share of employment. This finding is robust to the definition of firm size used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053472
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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups
Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002
, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the empirical analysis of a rich Dutch longitudinal data set of firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326404
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Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and knowledge creation (KC)
Vidic, Franc - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 2, pp. 103-124
There is wide acceptance of the precept that entrepreneurial orientation is associated with superior firm performance, and knowledge has been recognized as a key resource for preserving the competitive advantage. Enterprises must know what to do, how to do it, as well as when and where to do it....
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Ownership Structure, Horizontal Agency Costs and the Performance of High-Tech Entrepreneurial Firms
Colombo, Massimo G. - 2014
We use the lens of the resource-based view and horizontal agency cost theory to analyse the effect of the presence of different types of individual owners, i.e. owner-managers and non-manager individual shareholders, on the performance of high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Ownership enlargement...
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