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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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significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
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performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …
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This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … natural research setting, because performance can be observed at the individual level and without the obscuring effects of … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance …
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effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …
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performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education … year t and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …
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performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in …
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This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants’ role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...
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Recent studies show that the likelihood of survival differs significantly across firms. Both firm and industry characteristics are hypothesized to account for this heterogeneity. Using a longitudinal database of manufacturing firms we investigate whether firm or industry characteristics...
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