Survival of the firms

The book is an exceptional result of a distinctive network of European and American scholars, practitioners, and members of public institutions interested in the critical issues of emergence and survival of technology and knowledge based firms. The contributors study examples from both the old EU-member states such as France, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands, as well as newer countries such as Slovenia and Estonia.

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Capital investment decisions are among the most important financial decisions of a firm, which effect a business’s survival. This paper investigates the impact of capital investments on firm financial performance to provide insight for future capital investment decisions of companies.

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C:/Users/ThiThi/Downloads/1_s2_0_s2452315118302182_main_3479.pdfCorporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a core concept in the context of the hotel industry where it is considered as a significant factor in competition and a firms' survival, primarily because CSR influences customer satisfaction.

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the causes of financing difficulties of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Asian context. Recent literature suggests that lack of capital is the most severe constraint for SMEs’ survival and growth. Financing remains a critical constraint for several reasons. Information asymmetry between banks and SMEs retards the loans applications and underdeveloped equity markets deny SMEs future growth opportunities.

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This study points out the negotiation and signing of the FTA will bring many opportunities for businesses but also create enormous pressure when domestic firms compete with foreign businesses and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises can survive and thrive after 2015, the context of integration into a comprehensive and extensive world economy

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It also reveals that, compared to non-group firms, group firms with greater connectedness of independent directors face more limited access to external finance. Our results survive extensive robustness checks and provide a negative counterpoint to the positive correlation between independent board busyness and corporate performance.

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Hip hemiarthroplasty (HHA) is a common treatment for hip fractures in the elderly population. Because of the fatal effects of bone cement implantation syndrome, the safety of cement utilization to enhance implant firmness in the femur is controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate the postoperative survival of elderly patients receiving HHA with and without cement fixation.

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This study is conducted to answer the question of whether the presence of FDI enterprises affects the survival of domestic firms or not. The authors apply the logistic regression model to analyze this crowding out effect, using the case of the textile and garment processing industry, which has a key role in Vietnamese manufacturing, industry and which also has attracted a large amount of FDI in recent years.

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The study sought to find out the relationship between the liquidity and the profitability of ten leading FMCG companies in India. The study was descriptive in nature.

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Access to credit is considered vital for small business survival. Many small-business owners in the United States indicate that one major obstacle to entry or expansion of their small business is the availability of sufficient intermediate and long-term capital to support their working capital and fixed-assets requirements. Relying on small business lending data from 2003 to 2009 collected under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), the paper examines small and medium-sized enterprise access to credit in the United States and makes policy and research recommendations.

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Mobile money has the potential to attract the unbanked and capture money outside the financial system yet failed implementations are of gravy concern. The balanced scorecard is extoled for successfully in turning around the performance of ailing firms and industries. The research undertakes to review literature on the causes of failure in mobile money. In the context of those causes of failure, the paper proposes and explains how the adoption of the balanced scorecard by mobile money innovators can lever their performance and ultimately survival.

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This paper examines factors influencing the survival probability of firms in the industry in Vietnam. The obtained results reveal that among others, capital stock and expenditure on inputs such as materials and services were the significant determinants of firms’ surviving likelihood in the market. This likelihood was also positively correlated with the age of firms, however, in an inverse fashion when the firms reached a certain age.

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In a highly competitive industry, especially high-tech industry, a firm needs to have appropriate outsourcing strategies in order to survive. However, a firm used to have a strategic dilemma between supplier-oriented strategy and production-oriented strategy. Because of increasin complexity in the socio-economic surroundings along with rapidly changing technologies, how to have a suitable outsourcing investment is becoming an important focus for companies.

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Non Performing Loan Rate is the most important issue for banks to survive. There are lots of factors responsible for this ratio. Some of them belong to firm level issues and some are from macroeconomic measures. However this study is based on the blend. It considers the Real GDP per Capita, Inflation, and Total Loans as independent variables, and Non Performing Loan Ratio as dependent variable. Study uses the data of US banking sector from official web sources of US Federal Reserve System.

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Like job flows, the net jobs from continuing firms (firms that existed before and survived the period of analysis) overwhelm new and closing firms’ employment impact. Quarterly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Business Employment Dynamics (BED) show that continuing establishments accounted for 69 percent of the net new jobs from 1993 to mid-2008, and the other 31 percent reflected net new jobs from establishment births minus those lost in deaths (Figure 3).

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While the most promising findings are supposed to derive from cross-case analyses, each dis- sertation selected a specific research question related to the overall topic of the ICS project. In the first phase, all dissertations conducted an outside-in analysis of resource allocations at a selected case study company using a common methodology developed by Schmidt (2000) and further refined by the research team (Müller-Stewens and Schmidt, 2003).

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The concept of nutritional essentiality was firmly established less than 100 years ago. It arose from observations that certain diseases observed in human populations consuming poor diets could be prevented by including other foods in the diet and that failure of animals fed on diets composed of purified components or restricted to one or a few foodstuffs to grow and survive could similarly be corrected by including another food or an extract of the food in the diet. The food constituents that were found to prevent these problems were classified as indispensable (or essential) nutrients.

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To enable us to focus on the contracts accepted by consumers, we suppress the strategic interaction between firms and define equilibrium directly in terms of the contracts that survive competitive pressure.7 Since a borrower’s behavior in period 0 can depend only on ˆ β, the competitive equilibrium will be a set of contracts {(ci, i)}i∈{2, … , I } for the possible ˆ β types β2 through βI.

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The Palestinian stock market has a number of key players, including the Palestine Securities Exchange, public listed companies, brokerage firms, the Capital Market Authority (CMA) and shareholders. The Palestine stock market was created in 1996, performing its first deal early in 1997. It evolved quickly in the last ten years, the number of listed companies reaching 35 with a capitalization of US$ 950 million.

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Most of the reseach show that there is a positive correlation between news cardinality and trade volume plus volatility. Liang (2006) defined the web stock news volumes (WSNV) indicator and measured the impact of it on financial market behavior. He classified news according to direct and indirect aspects: direct news comes from a dedicated site containing the current news of a certain company; indirect news: company is mentioned on an other news site. His main conclusion is that significant increases of web stock news volumes are linked with the significant changes of stock prices.

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