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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257351
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Russian Firms in Transition: Champions, Challengers, and Chaff
Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1996
This paper proposes a composite measure to evaluate a firm's survival potential. The composite measure is applied to 51 Russian firms located in Moscow, Volgograd, Rostov and Taganrog, utilizing data collected in 1995 from in-depth interviews with top-level managers of manufacturing, trade, and...
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XTENDING LIKAGES BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: A CASE STUDY OF THE CELEBRITY-CONSTRUCTION OF A CHINESE MARKETPLACE
Jacobs, Mark - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2009
This paper examines the emergence of firm-celebrity, both an intangible-asset, and a facilitator of competitive advantage. Institutional approaches have asserted that organizations from the same organizational field and characterized by comparable structural positions face similar structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528997
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Does Market Structure Matter? New Evidence from Russia
Brown, Annette N.; Brown, J. David - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784739
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Investment Wages and Ownership During the Transition to a Market Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Firms
Prasnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489912
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Labor Market Flexibility in Central and East Europe
Svejnar, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
markets do not account for cross-country differences in economic performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652600
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Choice of Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Estonia
Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Mygind, Niels - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003
transition economies has identified the impact of ownership on economic performance.) However, the findings in this paper also …
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Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Structural Change and Economic Dynamics</I>, 2013, 24, 141-156.<P> We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the...</p></i>
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The Pollution Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: Asymmetry, Disaggregation, and Multilateralism
Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255767