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9 Jul 2023: The importance of these characteristics to exit behaviour has been established in studies concerning small business owners and self-employed, with inferences supporting a negative association between owner's human capital ... For example, credit risk

9 Jul 2023: Goss, E. and Vozikis, G.S., 1994, 'High tech manufacturing: Firm size, industry and population density', Small Business Economics 6 (4) 291-297. ... 1997, ‘Internationalisation Processes, Networking and Local Embeddedness in Technology Intensive Small

9 Jul 2023: 2003). US 900 firms, 1988-2000 in pharmaceutical industry. Large and small firms. ... 14. DATA. Data for this study is collected from the ‘Small and Medium Sized Business Survey 2002’ (CBR2002) conducted by the Centre for Business Research at

9 Jul 2023: More recently, transaction cost economics has shown that internalisation and vertical integration are advantaged when intermediate markets are “thin” or populated by small numbers. ... Treating regions as regional markets may be valid for our data-set

9 Jul 2023: 3. irrelevant in emerging market contexts. Even in developed economics such as the USA or Britain, contracting between business parties generally takes place in isolation from the court system, which deals ... shaped by an activist state and informal

9 Jul 2023: Based on characteristics of the businesses and their CEOs five ‘types’ of high tech small business are identified. ... Small expert’ firms were significantly more likely to regard technical/scientific expertise and quality as ‘crucial’

9 Jul 2023: In sharp contrast, many other sectors, and especially manufacturing sectors, have experienced a decline in their business stock since 1994 (DTI 1998, 1999, Small Business Service 2000b). ... This theory provides a framework for investigating the creation

9 Jul 2023: by. Dominic H. Chai Centre for Business Research. University of Cambridge Judge Business School Building. ... In addition, the identity and preference of owners also have impact on small business growth in the short run (Johnson, Conway and Kattuman, 1999

9 Jul 2023: This paper concerns the supply of business advice to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). ... The sample size for LECs and Business Shop/Connect in Scotland and Wales was too small to permit estimation2.

9 Jul 2023: published in November 2020 in the International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship (ISB-19-0537), 1-29, and hereby released as a CBR Working Paper, by permission of the Editor of ... The use of such multi-dimensional performance

9 Jul 2023: distribution of industrial firms, firstly oriented towards a growing relevance of big business, and then turning into what has been called “the re-emergence of small scale production”. ... Acknowledgements This paper was mostly written when I was

9 Jul 2023: However, within the study of external business advice and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) there has generally been an absence of a comprehensive multivariate approach that simultaneously controls for all ... The negative relationship between

9 Jul 2023: PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FIRMS IN CENTRAL LONDON. ESRC Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge Working Paper No. ... the firm, and a single person or a small group often implements the entire value added chain.

9 Jul 2023: 154. Lilach Nachum David Keeble ESRC Centre for Business Research ESRC Centre for Business Research and. ... Firms are often project-based, and once the film is completed they go out of business.

9 Jul 2023: In the neoclassical economic tradition, an ‘entrepreneur’ is simply the owner-manager of a (small) business. ... Labour market regulation may have an impact on the viability of small firms.

9 Jul 2023: COMPETITION AND PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING: STIMULATING CREATIVITY OR SERVICING CAPITAL? Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. ... Ana Lourenço School of Economics and Management,. Catholic University of Portugal, Rua Diogo Botelho,

9 Jul 2023: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Business School, Harold Hankins Building, University of Manchester, M13 9PL,. ... Further information about the Centre for Business Research can be found at www.cbr.cam.ac.uk.

9 Jul 2023: economics literature. On the one hand, it was argued that secured credit helped. ... fund more risky business ventures. Security also restricts the debtor’s ability to.

9 Jul 2023: Very recent work on the Irish case shows that small businesses continue to experience difficulties in obtaining appropriate levels of finance for start-up and growth (Small Business Forum, 2006). ... This was followed a year later by the EU driven

9 Jul 2023: Recent work in economics and business studies has however awakened widespread and new interest in the value of geographic proximity and generated a growing recognition that the processes occurring in localised ... the formation of localised business