Received: 29 May 2010 Revised: 1 May 2011 Accepted: 18 July 2011 Online publication date: 8 September 2011 Abstract Despite the increasing importance of financial and social remittances to developing countries, their impact on home-country venture-investing environments has been largely overlooked. I develop a framework grounded in transaction costs economics and social knowledge theories to in...

This thesis investigates the application of computational analytics to the domain of venture finance — the deployment of capital to high-risk ventures in pursuit of maximising financial return. Traditional venture finance is laborious and highly inefficient. Whilst high street banks approve (or reject) personal loans in a matter of minutes It takes an early-stage venture capital (VC) firm month...

technical efficiency of different sectors is important for economic policy making purposes. this study considering regions as independent decision-making units, measures technical efficiency of industrial sector for every region of the country and then examines its determinant factors.generally influential factors of efficiency are classified in two main groups. first group includes the basic e...

Abstract While the dissolution of new ventures is a common phenomenon in organizational landscape, it seldom means end road for those involved venture. Nevertheless, most research treats this with sense finality. Using Danish Integrated Database Labor Market Research (IDA), we explore persistence cofounders and early employees to continue their work relationships after We investigate where thes...

In the USA, governors became central figures in fight against novel coronavirus. many cases, state leaders were forced to choose between preserving life and protecting economic livelihood. While prior research has underscored important role that US played implementing healthcare policies at onset of COVID-19 pandemic, we know little about how characteristics impacted self-employment. this paper...