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“All that glitters is not gold!”: The (Unexplored) Determinants of Equity Crowdfunding
Drawing from the rich literature in behavioural finance and extensive analysis of forum data from a UK equity crowdfunding platform, we present a...
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Foreign direct investment along the Belt and Road: A political economy perspective
In 2013, China launched its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a large portfolio of infrastructure projects across 71 countries intended to...
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Forecast of Foreign Direct Investment of India Through ARIMA Under COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has already affected millions of lives across the globe, and most of the industries and businesses are closed. This pandemic has badly hit...
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University-SME collaboration and innovation performance: the role of informal relationships and absorptive capacity
This work analyzes the impact of university–industry collaborations (UICs) on the innovation performance of a sample of small and medium enterprises...
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How family firms use governance mechanisms to mitigate the risks of ecosystems: a case study from healthcare
This study aims to increase our understanding of how family firms, acting as ecosystem orchestrators, mitigate perceived relational and performance...
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Outsourcing in Africa: How do the interactions between providers, multinationals, and the state lead to the evolution of the BPO industry?
We explore the evolution of Africa’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. In so doing, we seek to derive policy and managerial implications...
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A Neuroscience Approach to Women Entrepreneurs’ Pitch Performance: Impact of Inter-Brain Synchrony on Investment Decisions
Making a successful pitch to investors is vital to the success of startups. Improving pitch performance in women entrepreneurs might be an effective...
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What drives the dynamics of employment growth in firms? Evidence from East Africa
This study examines the firm level drivers of employment growth in East Africa in which they are categorized as firm specific, entrepreneur specific...
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Venture capital internationalization in China and the Uppsala model
We study the investment behavior of new domestic Chinese venture capital (VC) firms compared to foreign VC firms newly entering the Chinese market....
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Expanding the international trade and investment policy agenda: The role of cities and services
We explore the public policy implications of two new, significant, and inter-related global phenomena. First, the rising share of services,...
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How do universities shape founding teams? Social proximity and informal mechanisms of knowledge transfer in student entrepreneurship
This paper investigates informal mechanisms of knowledge transfer (KT) from a local university to entrepreneurial teams comprising students and...
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Crypto-influencers
This study examines the investment value of information provided by crypto-influencers, that is, social media influencers covering crypto assets on...
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Does economic complexity reduce the size of the shadow economy in African countries?
Following the 2019 World Development Report which essentially advocates for the provision of stable formal jobs for the poor and vulnerable, this...
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Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business
Africa is rising, but IB scholars have largely failed to take notice. We argue that this is a missed opportunity. Not only is Africa a dynamic and...
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Enforcing higher labor standards within develo** country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy
The 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, led external stakeholders to insist on higher labor standards in apparel global...
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From Informal Financial Intermediaries to MicroFinTech Valuation
This chapter goes beyond the traditional model of for-profit startups, showing how Microfinance Institutions—a good template for NGOs—can follow the...
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Effects on the Soundness of Financial-Banking Institutions and on the Business Development
The aim of the chapter is to carry out an analysis of the effects of the main economic and financial crimes on business development and the activity...
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Does distance matter in foreign direct investment sub-national location choice? Evidence from China
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) make investment decisions according to the distance factors at a sub-national level. This paper made estimates using...
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Corruption distance and the equity-based foreign entry strategies of multinational enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa
We build on the corruption and legitimacy literature to propose specific means of collaboration between multinational enterprises and home- and...
