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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"big firms"”.
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Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME
… in manufacturing industries has been focused on big firms. The current study identifies factors in SMME’s that are common between the external and internal systems of innovation that supports firms in their management of innovation. The study gathered data through qualitative and quantitative …
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Rethinking innovation : the knowledge spill over strategic entrepreneurship In micro and small firms in Nigeria
… of innovation which arises from focus on big firms in advanced countries. Employing knowledge spillover theory of strategic entrepreneurship and using case study of selected micro and small firms in Nigeria, the study contextualises (i.e consider what is innovative to be context dependent) …
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A descriptive theory of the big accounting firm
… from three types of sources referencing the big accounting firms, academic research, the histories commissioned by the big firms and the intermittent disclosures of quantity 'stories' about the commercial operations of the firm. The theory created is an assembly of constructed concepts …
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Firm access to capital markets in Europe
… We control the cross-country differences of firms' size, business cycles and institutional backgrounds to check for the robustness of our estimator as possible instruments for the cost of external finance. The empirical results show that the concentrated banking sector in European countries …
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Mapping trends: patterns of employment trajectories in the United States, 1967-2005.
… blue-collar occupations, and those outside big firms, were compared by optimal matching analysis and cluster analysis. Accounting for gender, age period, and birth cohort, the distance of Americans’ career paths from the stable, full-time trajectories was found to be decreasing over time …
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Post 2007 crisis unconventional monetary policy in the UK
… contains four types of agents -households (HHs), big firms (BFs), small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and banks-. These agents interact monthly for a period of 50 months in an environment that simulates bank lending markets in the UK after APP was introduced in 2009. The ACE model is anchored to …
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Oligopoly, regional development and the political economy of separatism, with a case study of the United Kingdom and Scotland
The present thesis aims to increase our understanding of the causes of separatism. The inspiration for this topic comes from the fact that separatist conflicts can become extremely destructive, and thus a better understanding of why they emerge may help us prevent much human suffering by pointing …