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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe : Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Bruno, Randolph - 2014

focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a positive indirect impact of FDI on productivity and …

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Trends in Economic Research : An International Perspective

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2010

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance

Kiessling, Lukas - 2018

In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes at secondary schools. Students participate...

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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Bandick, Roger - 2009

non-MNEs, and purely domestic firms before foreign takeover. The results, controlling for possible endogeneity of the … horizontal or vertical. We also find robust positive employment growth effects only for exporters, and only if the takeover is …

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Same Process, Different Outcomes : Group Performance in an Acquiring a Company Experiment

Casari, Marco - 2016

It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...

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Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship : Business Takeover Versus New Venture Start-Up

Xi, Guoqian - 2016

entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a … large and rich French data set, we find that small firm experience increases the likelihood for business takeover, whereas …

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How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-Ups?

Xi, Guoqian - 2017

Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? And how do the determinants of survival differ between the two entry modes? Using a large French...

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Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship : New Venture Start-Up Versus Business Takeover

Xi, Guoqian - 2017

entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. business takeover) of hybrid entrepreneurs. Our study … female, having worker experience, and having received social benefits are linked to business takeover. With these results … takeover, which is of high interest, given the growing number of businesses seeking outside successors …

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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency : Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors

Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2021

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...

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