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  • The Online MBA at Benedictine University
    If you're a business professional, you know that an MBA can position you to move up into high-level leadership roles. Benedictine's online MBA degree program prepares you to successfully lead organizations through the challenges of 21st-century business management. Choose course that will benefit you the most from among seven concentrations to combine a strong foundation of essential business knowledge with more in-depth study in your area of interest. Specialize in: Entrepreneurship and Managing Innovation Accounting Finance Marketing International Business Health Care Administartion Internet Marketing

  • The Dynamics Of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles And Government Policy
    This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the US. The authors ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. They find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the US, while in both countries business cycle output variations significantly affect future rates of entrepreneurship. The paper discusses implications of the findings for the design of entrepreneurship policies.

  • Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?
    In this paper the authors explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. They pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining country-level institutional indicators for 44 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Enterprise Monitor. A methodological contribution is the use of factor analysis to reduce the statistical problems with the array of highly collinear institutional indicators. They find that the key institutional features that enhance entrepreneurial activity are indeed the rule of law and limits to the state sector. However, these results are sensitive to the level of development.

  • Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management
    Designed from the ground-up using the latest technology advances and incorporating the best practices gathered from Oracle's thousands of customers, Fusion Applications are 100 percent open standards-based business applications that set a new standard for the way we innovate, work and adopt technology. Delivered as a complete suite of modular applications, Fusion Applications work with your existing portfolio to evolve your business to a new level of performance. In this AppCast, part of a special series on Fusion Applications, you hear about the unique advantages of Fusion Human Capital Management, learn about the scope of the first release and discover how Fusion HCM modules can be used to complement and enhance your existing HCM solutions.

  • Internet Banking In Europe: A Comparative Analysis
    A key strategic issue for banks is the implementation of internet banking. The 'Click and mortar' model that complements classical branch banking with online facilities is competing with pure internet banks. The objective of this paper is to compare the performance of these two models across countries, so as to examine the role of differences in the banking system and technological progress. A fuzzy cluster analysis on the performance of banks in Finland, Spain, Italy and the UK shows that internet banks are hard to distinguish from banks that follow a click and mortar strategy; country borders are more important.

  • Who Values The Status Of The Entrepreneur?
    Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'Entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current paper focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is related to individual choice behavior, it is policy relevant to better understand this relationship and the determinants of the status of the entrepreneur. For reasons outlined in the introduction, this paper focuses on (800) students in the Netherlands.

  • Entrepreneurship: Origins And Returns
    The authors examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, their notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, they find that entrepreneurship tends to be profitable. It also raises income uncertainty, but the most successful quartile gains much more than the least successful quartile loses. Key determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur are occupational qualifications, family resources, gender, and work environments.

  • How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
    This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in Young Innovative Companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are tested on a sample of innovative Italian firms. A sample-selection approach is applied. Results show that in-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation intensity in the YICs is mainly dependent on embodied technical change from external sources, while - in contrast with the incumbent firms - in-house R&D does not play a significant role.

  • Does Offshoring Of Materials And Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence From A Small Open Economy
    The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates in output and it is among the first to address both materials and business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries. Estimations of static and dynamic industry-level labour demand equations augmented by offshoring intensities do not reveal a significant impact of either materials or business services offshoring on total employment for Belgium between 1995 and 2003.

  • Intrapreneurship Or Entrepreneurship?
    The author explores the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('Nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('Nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to organize ventures which sell directly to customers, whereas intrapreneurs disproportionately commercialize unique new opportunities which sell to other businesses. Implications of the findings are discussed.

  • Public Policy In Support Of Small Business: The American Experience
    Information problems in small enterprise credit markets can result in a market equilibrium characterized by credit rationing. These information problems are potentially more severe during sharp economic downturns such as the recent Great Recession. Government interventions to alleviate credit constraints on small firms need to be designed to correct the specific market failure resulting in socially suboptimal credit flows. The authors argue that Small Business Administration loan guarantees are a potentially appropriate intervention and provide a review of empirical research that supports their contention.

  • Openness And Technological Innovation In East Asia: Have They Increased The Demand For Skills?
    This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. The authors explore a unique firm level data set across eight countries. Their results strongly support the idea that greater openness and technology adoption have increased the demand for skills, especially in middle income countries. Moreover, while the presence in international markets has been skill enhancing for most middle income countries, this has not been the case for manufacturing firms operating in China and in low-income countries.

  • Co-determination And Innovation
    This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law. Several control variables are applied and in particular, in order to avoid a possible bias from specific effects of firm size, the authors compare the co-determined firms with others before and after 1976. The results do not support the view that co-determination slows down technological progress and reduces innovativeness.

  • Does Self-employment Increase The Economic Well-being Of Low-skilled Workers?
    Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses, it is particularly important to seek and evaluate their labor market options. Utilizing data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and addresses the essential question of whether self-employment is a good option for low-skilled individuals that policymakers might consider encouraging.

  • Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship And Social Capital
    The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. The authors develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital accumulation but, at the same time, may lead to a loss of social capital back home. They test the predictions of the model using data from Egypt. They find that, even after controlling for the endogeneity of the temporary migration decision, an overseas returnee is more likely to become an entrepreneur than a non-migrant.

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