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This study examines the determinants of the decision to raise foreign currency denominated debt by taking advantage of a unique and comprehensive sample of private and public debt raised by 44 Finnish corporations. The results suggest that small firms borrow from domestic banks and insurance...
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This study investigates the impact that managerial ownership has on loan availability and credit terms. We find that managerial ownership is common in a sample of small and medium sized Finnish firms. Our results suggest that an increase in managerial ownership decreases loan availability. The...
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This study examines the use and determinants of covenants in Finnish small firms' loans. The results show that 72 of the 642 loan contracts examined include at least one covenant. Negative covenants are more common than affirmative covenants in our sample. We use loan characteristics, firm...
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This article investigates how small companies providing new-technology-based services (T-KIBS) manage their client contacts. Many KIBS companies have extensive and close contacts with their clients, to the extent that their services can actually be co-produced together with the clients. This...
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As the wide use of the network concept within and outside marketing implies, the term may be filled with different meanings depending on the textual and disciplinary context. This is true especially as far as the currently popular IMP (Industrial/International Marketing and Purchasing) group...
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This paper is based on the early stages of an international collaborative project investigating the structural changes of the confectionery sectors in Finland and the U.K. over the past two decades. An institutional perspective is used to extend conventional understandings of industries via the...
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