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Clusters of entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
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Integrating Environmental Issues Into Corporate Strategy: A Catalyst for Radical Organizational Innovation
Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A.; Roy, Marie Josée - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995
This paper presents the results of a study conducted in manufacturing firms operating in the electrical and electronic sectors in Quebec. It investigates the extent to which environmental concerns are integrated into corporate strategy and the entire product development stages. Special attention...
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State and industry in the 1940s: The Spanish automobile industry
Triay, Salvador Estapé - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999
The decade of the 1940s was one of the darkest periods in the country's history, with years of famine, repression, general misery, and impoverishment of all aspects of national life ranging from culture to the economy. During those years plans were made to establish a Spanish motor industry once...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827441
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Innovative Efforts as Determinants of Export Performance: The Case of Specialized Suppliers
Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995
This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between innovative efforts and performance on international … export performance. Moreover, the study results suggest a particular innovative profile for global specialized suppliers …. Les résultats présentés dans cette étude portent sur le lien entre efforts innovateurs et performance sur les marchés …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627168
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Static Versus Dynamic Structural Models of Depression: The Case of the CES-D
Blais, Marc R.; Hess, Ursula; Riddle, Andrea S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002
Depression is composed of multiple subcomponents including social, cognitive, affective, and somatic symptomatology. Many widely used self-report scales are also multidimensional, suggesting that the subcomponents of depression are empirically differentiated, yet the use of a composite score is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100757
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Coping with stressful decisions: Individual differences, appraisals, and choice / Coping with stressful decisions:Individual differences, appraisals,and choice
Blais, Ann-Renée - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002
This study adapts Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) model of stress and coping to describe individual decision processes. This research also investigates the role of situational and person factors in coping and choice processes. In the first phase of the experiment, participants described two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101093
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Learning Conditions in the Context of R&D and Development Projects: Empirical Evidence from a Research Centre
Bourgault, Mario; Sicotte, Hélène - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1998
Today's changing environment is bringing about a major transformation of the way organizations operate. Most of the discussion about such evolving environment focuses on the necessity for organizations to continuously renew their stock of knowledge and competencies. This renewal takes place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627154
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Technological Learning and Organizational Context: Fit and Performance in SMEs
Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A.; Préfontaine, Lise - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1996
This paper investigates the relationship between organizational fit and performance. More specifically internal … between the level of internal coherence and firm performance is assessed in the specific context of SMEs. Results derived from … a particular form of theoretical approach based on fit as gestalt suggest that fit and performance must be interpreted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005417586
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Inequity Aversion in Tournament
Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003
We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance … envy depending on the costs of assessing performance. More envious employees are preferred when these costs are high, less … à la mesure de la performance. Lorsque ces coûts sont élevés, le principal préférerait des travailleurs plus envieux; à …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100711
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Size Matters: The Impact of Capital Market Liberalization on Individual Firms
Christoffersen, Peter; Chung, Hyunchul; Errunza, Vihang - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003
We attempt to answer the following questions: What are the revaluation effects and the impact on performance … liberalization across firms. Large firms tend to exhibit large revaluation effects, insignificant change in performance, large …, improved performance, smaller decline in volatility and decreases in correlation after liberalization. These results hold after …
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