[PDF] Top 20 Contemplating Knudsen's Baseline: Where Small is not so Beautiful

... the small firm owner’s disposition towards learning from that of the small firm’s ability to ...the small place-based firm embedded in a web-impacted environment, it is through selection of the ... See full document

... "Small is Beautiful" The Responses of Women Organic Farmers t o the Crisis in Agriculture J E N N I F E R S U M N E R Se basant sur une rbcente ktude, l'auteure explore la division selon les genres da[.] ... See full document

... ‘most beautiful of wars’ – defensive people’s ...of small wars and people’s war stemming from the reform years continued to play a role in the context of his later writings on small wars and people’s ... See full document

... Greenwald and Stiglitz (1990) model firms as maximizing expected equity minus expected cost of bankruptcy and examine scenarios where firms may be equity or borrowing constrained. A key result of theirs is that ... See full document

... The literature on medical quality in NH care in terms of, for instance, mortality and adverse event rates, has investigated numerous explanatory factors including staffing, ownership, care routines, and the size of ... See full document

... Interviews were carried out with five professionals with experience in the energy sector three of these were from Kirklees Council, a further two were from other organisations. All of the interviewees have experience in ... See full document

... of small states remain excluded from sources of concessional finance – such as International Development Association (IDA) and Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) or debt relief from international financial ... See full document

... 6 may foment overall growth in the agricultural sector, but they will do less than nothing to combat the problem of rural poverty. They will contribute neither to the well being of small farmers nor to employment ... See full document

... While thus the SICCD-explanation seems to be quite promising at first, it does not seem to work for large EMU countries. Here, two questions have to be raised: First, why did strategically act- ing unions in Ireland or ... See full document

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... 2006). Small firms do not only report higher financing obstacles, they are also more adversely affected by these obstacles in their operation and growth (Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt and Maksimovic, 2005; Beck et ... See full document

... This table shows the output of a three-stage regression analysis (see Brennan, Chordia and Subrahmanyam (1998)). In the first stage, we regress excess returns on a five-factor model that includes the market, size, value ... See full document

... 4. In 2002, ie well before the crisis, Warren Buffett, who is one of the most successful investors in history and in 2008 was ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world, raised serious concerns about the ... See full document

... local small businesses (Briedenhann & Ramchander 2006, Nel et ...promoting small businesses for local economic development in the context of developing ...new small businesses without paying ... See full document

... The significance of tourism is viewed from many angles like economic, social, cultural, political, etc. Tourism is now the fastest growing and single largest industry in the world. The industry has attained the ... See full document

... The research method used throughout this research has been modeled on Hayward's (2000) cycle of reflective practice within which the seminal works of Dewey (1933), Kolb (1984) and Schon (1983; 1987) where ... See full document

... Zafar, S.N., Syed, R., Waqar, S., Zubairi, A.J., Vaqar, T., Saikh, M., Yousaf, W., Shahid, S., Saleem, S. 2008. Self- medication amongst university students of Karachi: Prevalence, Knowledge and ... See full document

... when contemplating where to locate within India, investors ‘consider specific aspects of the local investment climate’ such as the ‘cost of business regulation’, corruption, and access to land, and that ... See full document

... two small, early studies [26, 27] little is known of Indigenous Australians’ views on kidney trans- plantation or organ donation – either from community or patient ... See full document

... a baseline from which comparisons are made to existing perceptions of the firm and its ...marketplace. So, a means of (both internal and external) selection is present, sources of variation are accounted ... See full document