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The Role of Loan Guarantee Schemes in Alleviating Credit Rationing in the UK
Cowling, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
It is a widely held perception, although empirically contentious, that credit rationing is an important phenomenon in the UK small business sector. In response to this perception the UK government initiated a loan guarantee scheme (SFLGS) in 1981. In this paper we use a unique dataset comprised...
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Entrepreneurial Morality: Some Indications from Greece
Bitros, George C.; Karayiannis, Anastassios D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In countries with relatively small firms, entrepreneurial morality is determined by the influences that shape the values, the personality and the character of entrepreneurs as owners and managers of their enterprises. To shed some light on the processes involved we estimate an ordered probit...
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The theory of entrepreneurship and evolutionary economics
Кантарбаева, Алия; Мустафин, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
The paper presents the analysis of recent developments of Schumpeterian theory of entrepreneurship and innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212782
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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Perceptions of entrepreneurs among polish students
Starnawska, Marzena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to present how we can approach and explore the field of entrepreneurship phenomenon in an … management research. We hope to outline how we can approach topic of entrepreneurship using alternative, not mainstream method … entrepreneurship was Baumol (1990) who analyzed perceptions of entrepreneurs from historical perspective. He has distinguished three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258249
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Entrepreneurship. How important are institutions and culturally-based prior beliefs?
Ferrante, Francesco; Ruiu, Gabiele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
capital. Other strands of literature stress that the supply of entrepreneurship is a fundamental ingredient of economic growth … opportunity driven entrepreneurship. For what regards institutional variables, three interesting and somehow non conventional … results emerge from the analysis. First, low start-up cost are particular favorable for necessity driven entrepreneurship but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258267
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The way things are done here – Polish entrepreneurship - having endowned heritage or burden?
Starnawska, Marzena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using case study analysis based on in-depth interviews we aim to extend the entrepreneurship research in transition … context in Poland. Entrepreneurship models build in America and Western Europe do not picture the specifics of … entrepreneurship in transition economies. The author reviews concepts and theses on entrepreneurship in this context and argues that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259343
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Capital-as-a-Service?
Rosa, Frederico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 changed the landscape of financing a business, affecting all projects that are looking for growth based on access to capital. Non-bank finance and new forms of equity access started to emerge not only for attractive born-global start-ups but also for...
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The Relationship Conflict between Venture Capital and Entrepreneur
Alqatawni, Tahsen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The dilemmas that may encounter entrepreneurship result of an expected conflict between VCs and entrepreneur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260079
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Evolution of the venture capital financing for growing small and medium enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe countries: the case of Macedonia
Lazarevski, Dimche; Mrsik, Jadranka; Smokvarski, Edi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The objective of this paper is to examine and analyze the differences between Venture Capital development in Macedonia and several Central and Eastern Europe countries, to determine the reasons, and hence extract certain conclusions that will serve as a guideline in Macedonia’s venture capital...
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