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This paper compares outsourcing processes in France, Italy and Japan in two types of firms, large firms and also small firms. It is shown that outsourcing has increased over the last two decades in both small and large firms in all three countries and that mainly in the last decade the tendency...
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This paper compares outsourcing processes in France, Italy and Japan in two types of firms, large firms and also small firms. It is shown that outsourcing has increased over the last two decades in both small and large firms in all three countries and that mainly in the last decade the tendency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053698
) entrepreneurs relates to expropriation. In other countries (like China) this kind of risk is lower; nevertheless the government is … type of government by focusing on the distribution of subsidies in China. Next, we present a simple formal model that … of regional and sectoral heterogeneity of China for empirical tests and we are unable to reject our null hypotheses …
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This paper investigates the relationship between ownership concentration and enterprise performance in Ukraine. Using data on 376 medium and large enterprises, it finds that ownership concentration is positively associated with enterprise performance in Ukraine. The paper also finds that...
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This paper explored Slovenian entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics to understand the existing gender gap in transitional countries, testing the proposed model among small and medium-sized company owners (N = 201; 32.3% female, 67.7% male). The research operationalized entrepreneurs’...
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We organized business associations for the owner-managers of young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,820 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a “no-meetings” control group. We find the...
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The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing decisions in firms characterized by thick industrial relations, that is where unions and employees are involved in, and are sometimes able to affect, the relative managerial...
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More than half a decade, the study of the financing gap in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises' (SMEs) sector has been a subject of interest. As an extremely important in national economy and social life, especially in the aspect of solving employment and promoting urbanization, SMEs' financing...
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