infonet-economy

In sufficiently large schools, lessons are given to classes in sections of various sizes, depending on the subject taught. Consequently, classes have to be split into various given numbers of sections. We focus on how to subdivide a class in subgroups, so as to be able to reproduce all required sections by merging subgroups together, while minimizing the number of edges in the…

In the industry of venture capital, the majority of investments in startups are realized in the form of syndica tion by venture capitalists (VCs), which diversify thus their risk and maximize their profits. Corporations also invest in startups with VCs, but often for different reasons. They rather seek to acquire information on the marketable…

Volition is an important characteristic in the field of training and vocational guidance. Literature on entrepreneurship has focused on this concept to better understand the behavior of the entrepreneur ( Achtziger & Gollwitzer, 2008). This study analyzes the personal characteristics involved in the process of transformation of intentions into actions in the…

This book aims to determine the significant differences between exporting family and nonfamily SME in order to profile these exporting family firms with respect to their general export performance and the underlying strategies, their scope of exporting countries and characterizing them in different types of exporters. A comparative analysis is conducted based on the Swiss…

To advance understanding of the motivational dynamics by which, in the very early stages of entrepreneurial pursuits , some individuals get sufficiently excited by a new venture idea to examin e it further and engage into more entrepreneurial efforts, it is theoretically important to not only study the influence of individual dispositions and…

Companies striving for innovation often struggle to develop and implement radically novel projects that do not fit their established formal organization, logics or routines. Indeed, such projects face significant internal barriers due to which they are often not initiated at all or terminated internally before reaching maturity for…

This paper examines the factors influencing the capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of foreign banks. We test whether the CAR of subsidiaries and branches in developed and developing countries depends on the same factors. We use data from 310 subsidiaries and 265 branches to test the impact of the parent banks’ fundamentals on subsidiaries’ and branches’ capital ratios. We also study how…

Leading others is generally accepted as a process by which an individual influences another individual (or collective) to exert effort in reaching organizational goals (Northouse, 2010) . As such, leading others within organizations does not have to be tied to any particular organizational or hierarchal position to employ such influence (Wheelan &…