An overview of entrepreneurial acti

An overview of entrepreneurial activity in nonprofit organizations in the international context
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) play a relevant role in society by attempting to satisfy human necessities in a different way, or as a complement to lucrative firms and governmental activity. In this sense, the...
Domingo Ribeiro Soriano, Miguel-Ángel Galindo in Small Business Economics (2012)
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Selfishness Level of Strategic Games
We introduce a new measure of the discrepancy in strategic games between the social welfare in a Nash equilibrium and in a social optimum, that we call selfishness level. It is the smallest fraction of the social...
Krzysztof R. Apt, Guido Schäfer in Algorithmic Game Theory (2012)
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Economic Transition and Regional Growth: The Case of Albania and Comparator SEECs
The focus of this paper is to investigate the growth performance of Albania and other South Eastern European Countries in the period 1990–2006 by examining traditional growth sources as emerge from standard th...
Rosa Capolupo in Transition Studies Review (2012)
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Emerging Technologies and Ethics: A Race-to-the-Bottom or the Top?
Does national success with an emerging technology require ethical sacrifices? This question is considered through the simultaneous consideration of ethics, investment, and outcomes in the nine jurisdictions th...
Raul Gouvea, Jonathan D. Linton, Manuel Montoya… in Journal of Business Ethics (2012)
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Married Women’s Lifestyles in Japan: Disparities Based on the Number of Children
In order to explore the complex mechanisms of married women’s decisions in matters of childbirth, we studied empirically the relations between family size and aspects of lifestyle through a questionnaire surve...
Y. Cao, S. Matsumoto, T. Murata in The Review of Socionetwork Strategies (2012)
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Liquidity Crunch in the Interbank Market: Is it Credit or Liquidity Risk, or Both?
The interplay between liquidity and credit risks in the interbank market is analyzed. Banks are hit by idiosyncratic random liquidity shocks. The market may also be hit by bad news at a future date, implying t...
Angelo Baglioni in Journal of Financial Services Research (2012)
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Nascent entrepreneurship panel studies: progress and challenges
Economics, history, organizational theory, psychology, public policy, social psychology, sociology, and strategy have all had something to say about business creation. Though the multiple lenses have produced ...
William B. Gartner, Kelly G. Shaver in Small Business Economics (2012)
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The orders of documents, the orders of activity, and the orders of information
The invention of literacy was also the invention of written information. Humanly usable information has been (and will likely continue to be for the foreseeable future) tied to human documents. Any order we im...
Charles Bazerman in Archival Science (2012)
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Organizational dynamics of worker cooperatives in Argentina
Worker cooperatives in Argentina have experienced important changes since the beginning of the nineties and their presence became meaningful from 2003 onwards, due to the stimulation of public policies oriente...
Mirta Vuotto in Service Business (2012)
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Oligopoly games under asymmetric costs and an application to energy production
Oligopolies in which firms have different costs of production have been relatively under-studied. In contrast to models with symmetric costs, some firms may be inactive in equilibrium. (With symmetric costs, t...
Andrew Ledvina, Ronnie Sircar in Mathematics and Financial Economics (2012)
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Uwe Götze in Journal of Management Control (2012)
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Zur „Präferenzabhängigkeit“ von Unternehmenswerten bei persönlicher Besteuerung
Zur Ermittlung des sog. „Steuervorteils der Fremdfinanzierung“ bedienen sich große Teile der Unternehmensbewertungsliteratur einfacher Duplikationsüberlegungen in der Tradition von Modigliani und Miller (1958)...
Dr. Josef Schosser in Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (2012)
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Political Institutional Change, Obsolescing Legitimacy, and Multinational Corporations
This paper studies the practice of integration of influential host country actors to a multinational corporation as a strategy to decrease problems of legi...
Assoc. Prof. Marcelo Bucheli Ph.D.… in Management International Review (2012)
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Categorical and continuous non-discretionary variables in data envelopment analysis: a comparison of two single-stage models
Non-discretionary or environmental variabl