Journal Article

Based on unique panel data consisting of both formal and informal firms, this paper uses a matched double difference approach to examine the relationship between legal status and firm level outcomes in micro, small and medium manufacturing...

• Business enterprises
• Entrepreneurship
• Informal sector

Working Paper

This paper investigates the benefits and associated agency costs of using internal capital markets through affiliating with groups using data of two thousand firms from nine East Asian economies between 1994-6. We find that mature and slow-growing...

• Business enterprises
• Business networks
• Capital market

Working Paper

The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting...

• Business enterprises
• Choice
• Mathematical models (Decision making)

Working Paper

Tanzania’s industrial sector has evolved through various stages since independence in 1961, from nascent and undiversified to state-led import substitution industrialization, and subsequently to de-industrialization under the structural adjustment...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• International trade

Working Paper

This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases from each of Mozambique’s 11 provinces. The new dataset is assessed by...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• Manufacturing industries

Working Paper

• Business enterprises
• Competition
• Globalization

Working Paper

This paper analyses the Hungarian experience with SMEs development by highlighting the factors and policies that explain the sector features and dynamics and utilizes this experience to suggest an interpretation of the striking differences with...

• Business enterprises
• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Business networks

Working Paper

Using a specially designed survey instrument in combination with a representative sample of Vietnamese enterprises, we explore firm-level efficiency effects of corporate social responsibility. We find a positive relationship between adoption of...

• Business enterprises
• Corporate culture
• Manufacturing

Working Paper

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection...

• Business enterprises
• Commerce
• Organizational behavior

Working Paper

In this paper, we aim to analyse the learning by exporting hypothesis in the Mozambican context. Due to the presence of the born-global phenomenon among exporters, we address the endogeneity introduced by self-selection by combining a generalized BO...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• Microeconomics

Policy Brief

How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses these...

• Business enterprises
• Economic development
• Entrepreneurship

Journal Article

This contribution studies the provision of fringe benefits using a unique survey of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam. Analysis of the survey reveals that women who own SMEs are more likely than men who own similar firms to provide...

• Business enterprises
• Labour contracts
• Small business

Working Paper

This paper examines the nature of the unorthodox ownership and governance structures that are emerging among firms and the way these structures are supporting the remarkable economic growth in the transition economies of East Asia, as represented in...

• Business enterprises
• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Corporate governance

Blog

by Robert J. Strom April 2011

Robert J. Strom Interest in the study of entrepreneurship has flourished among scholars in recent years. This research has brought to light, among...

• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Business enterprises
• Economic development

Working Paper

This paper assesses the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their impact on the economic performance of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) of three East African countries: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Findings of the...

• Business enterprises
• Information technology
• Labour productivity

Working Paper

The economic liberalization in India was expected to boost the economy, particularly the industrial sector through faster technological development. The Schumpeterian hypothesis, which studies the relationship between market structure variables such...

• Austrian school of economics
• Business enterprises
• Technological innovations