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Elastic limit: The role of university-focused venture capital firms in extending knowledge and technology transfer [PDF]
, 2016 This paper has two main objectives. Firstly, to identify the role of the university-focused intermediaries, specifically UVCs, in order to explain how they interact at the early stage of USO creation, particularly regarding knowledge sharing.
Fuster-Martin, Elena +3 more
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Institutional Ownership and Corporate Sustainability Performance—A Meta‐Analysis
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between institutional ownership (IO) and corporate sustainability performance (SP), addressing inconsistent findings in prior research and clarifying the boundary conditions of this relationship by testing a defined set of potential moderators.
Hans Henrik Scherer +2 more
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Identification of Sources of Finance in Growing Companies Operating in Food Industry in Tehran [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2016 This research by identifying and classifying finance sources can largely contribute in releasing companies’ finance challenges and prevent bankruptcy.
Ali Dehkordi +2 more
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Cows, Kiva, and Prosper.Com: how disintermediation and the internet are changing microfinance [PDF]
Recent advances in finance and technology are providing new opportunities for individual investors to support and invest in microenterprises, and in some cases, bypassing intermediaries altogether.
Tillman Bruett
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The blue economy has emerged as a key sector for linking sustainability and innovation, yet existing research has largely overlooked how firms operationalize these processes in practice. This study addresses that gap by asking: How do Portuguese blue economy firms embed sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI) into their strategies, and what ...
Jennifer Nicole Elston +2 more
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Entrepreneurial entry: which institutions matter? [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test ...
Aidis, R., Estrin, S., Mickiewicz, T.
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Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
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The Role of Corporate Governance in Enhancing Environmental and Social Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how different corporate governance (CG) approaches influence firms' environmental and social performance, specifically focusing on the role of internal vs. external resources and operational vs. strategic approaches. Anchored in stakeholder and resource dependency theory, we develop a conceptual framework grounded in ...
Tommaso Fornasari +2 more
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Equity financing of the entrepreneurial firm [PDF]
Equity financing of the entrepreneurial firm has achieved a rapid increase over the past> decade. Venture capital funds, which finance privately held start-ups, raised a record $92.3 billion in 2000. This is a 30-fold increase relative to 1990. At Nasdaq,
Frank A. Schmid
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Women's business ownership : recent research and policy developments [PDF]
, 2006 This report aims to provide a current assessment of recent research investigating women's business ownership. The report builds on a previous review undertaken by the authors on behalf of the Small Business Service (Carter, Anderson and Shaw, 2001).
Carter, S.L., Shaw, E.
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