ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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The impact of business support organizations on the innovative activity of Lubusz industrial enterprises Business support institutions are one of the institutional solutions that are aimed at stimulating innovation, and influenced by innovation policy ...
Gorączkowska Jadwiga
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VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCING: PARTICULARITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Venture capital is a way of financing generally used to support companies and small- business enterprises and innovative enterprises. It is becoming a very popular source of capital for new companies or enterprises that do not have access to capital ...
Daniela Bumbac, Olga Stefaniuc
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Backing the horse or the jockey? Due diligence, agency costs, information and the evaluation of risk by business angel investors [PDF]
This paper explores the argument that business angel investors are more concerned with managing and minimising agency risk than market risk. Based on data on the due diligence process from a survey of business angels in the UK, the paper concludes that ...
Harrison, Richard T., Mason, Colin M.
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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong +2 more
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The informal investment context: specific issues concerned with business angels [PDF]
Informal investors play a key role to meet the financing needs of business projects in early stages. However, this is a group in which there are different kinds and ways of dealing with investment.
Jon Hoyos Iruarrizaga +1 more
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Venture investment of marketing management of small trade enterprises: conditions and sources [PDF]
The aim of the article. The main purpose of the article is to generalize the features and prospects and to substantiate the expediency of venture investment of marketing management of small trade enterprises in Ukraine and to identify effective forms of ...
K.M. Kraus
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Alternative sources of financing entrepreneurial undertakings in agriculture [PDF]
Insufficiency of internal financial resources and limited access to external sources of capital, as one of the key problems, local agricultural producers - entrepreneurs usualy describe with high cost of capital, complicated procedures, lack of ...
Njegomir Vladimir +2 more
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Finanzierung von jungen Unternehmen in Deutschland durch Privatinvestoren: Auswertungen aus dem KfW/ZEW Gründungspanel. Projektbericht [PDF]
Die Studie „Finanzierung von jungen Unternehmen in Deutschland durch Privatinvestoren“ untersuchte das Ausmaß des Engagements von Business Angels. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf Informationen aus der Befragung von jungen Unternehmen im Rahmen des KfW/ZEW ...
Egeln, Jürgen, Gottschalk, Sandra
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Patient capital in entrepreneurial finance: a reassessment of the role of business angel investors [PDF]
The debate on patient capital, particularly in the varieties of capitalism literature, concentrates on institutions and public markets. In this paper we take an entrepreneurial finance perspective to examine the investment attitudes and behaviours of ...
Botelho, Tiago +2 more
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