In many developing countries, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) employ more people than any other type of firm, so identifying ways to raise productivity, improve employment conditions, and formalize labor in these settings is of prime policy importance. However, due to the small...

In many developing countries, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) employ more people than any other type of firm, so identifying ways to raise productivity, improve employment conditions and formalize labor in these settings is of prime policy importance. However, due to the small number...

In México, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) represenet 99.80% of economic units and employ 74% of the population. However, the percentage of gross production is just 35.90%. This implies that, despite their strong presence in the indicators of economic units and jobs generated,...

It is important for IPO firms to establish legitimacy in the eyes of investors through signaling. The objective of this research is to examine the relationship between signals including governance and management practices and the performance of family firms IPOs. Using IPO data of 129 family...

This paper is a literature review of the recent corporate governance research in Nigeria. It identifies the recent advances and challenges in the literature and suggest some directions for future research. A comprehensive review of the recent corporate governance literature is important because...

In Italy, the strong competitive environment has progressively reduced the credit intermediation role of banks. For Italian banks, SMEs represent the most important segment among the corporate ones and many ICT products/services suppliers are now giving great attention to SMEs, since the market...

For a successful economy, the interaction between research and its application in practice plays a key role. The aim of this paper is to analyze the institutional factors of patent activity at universities in the Czech Republic. The following five factors were selected for detailed...

In this article, the authors develop an econometric model to determine the impact of professional telework activities on the degree of employees' performance, based on the ability to adapt to the new labor system. The data were collected using a questionnaire addressed to employees of companies...

Entrepreneurial activities in transition economies go beyond (technical) entrepreneurship. In an environment of institutional and procedural uncertainty entrepreneurs need to select business partners, choose a mode of governance that stabilizes long term business relations, and settle for such...

When planning for a major organizational change, a company's top management should take into account how the human brain's threat & reward system operates, in order to plan and foresee how the change message should be effectively communicated to the company's ranks, so a leveled playing field...