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Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive
- JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
, 1990
"... The basic hypothesis is that, while the total supply of entrepreneurs varies anlong societies, the productive contribution of the society's entrepreneurial activities varies much more because of their allocation between productive activities such as innovation and largely unproductive activitie ..."
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Rome. early China, and the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Europe is used to investigate the hypotheses. It is often assumed that an economy of private enterprise has an automatic bias towards innovation, but this is not so. It has a bias only towards profit. [HOBSBAWM 1969, p. 401 When conjectures
State versus Private Ownership
, 1998
"... Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the "dynamic vitality" of free enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1 ..."
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Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the "dynamic vitality" of free enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s
Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance
- Strategic Management Journal
, 2007
"... This paper draws on the social and behavioral sciences in an endeavor to specify the nature and microfoundations of the capabilities necessary to sustain superior enterprise performance in an open economy with rapid innovation and globally dispersed sources of invention, innovation, and manufacturin ..."
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This paper draws on the social and behavioral sciences in an endeavor to specify the nature and microfoundations of the capabilities necessary to sustain superior enterprise performance in an open economy with rapid innovation and globally dispersed sources of invention, innovation
Proceedings SOUTHERN REGION June 18, 1986
, 1986
"... this paper, weed control is considered to be part of the functional machine system with the application of herbicides being mechanical operations -16- -17substituting for mechanical weed control. This is but one of several machinery selection and management options which must be evaluated to max ..."
Innovation and Profit Efficiency in Organic Farming
"... Abstract: This paper measures the contribution of innovations in profit efficiency of organic farmers. By constructing an innovation variable, primary cross section data on organic olive enterprises from a Greek region is used in the application of the stochastic frontier profit function. Farmers ar ..."
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Abstract: This paper measures the contribution of innovations in profit efficiency of organic farmers. By constructing an innovation variable, primary cross section data on organic olive enterprises from a Greek region is used in the application of the stochastic frontier profit function. Farmers
Identifying Efficient and Profitable Farm Enterprises in Uasin-Gishu County, in Kenya
, 2011
"... Abstract: In Uasin-Gishu County, many of the farm enterprises are associated with low incomes due to price fluctuation, poor utilization of scarce production resources and increasing land sub-division. To improve the low farm incomes, farmers have gradually diversified their farming activities by a ..."
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.3 and 75.3%, respectively) and at the same time low Gross Margin levels (Kshs 27, 328 and Kshs 27,353, respectively) relative to passion fruit and dairy farming. Passion fruit and dairy farming were the more profitable farm enterprises and have a lot of potential to improve farm incomes than maize
Autonomy and Incentives in Chinese State Enterprises
- QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, VOL
, 1994
"... When the responsibility for output decisions was shifted from the state to the firm, and when firms were allowed to retain more of their profits, managers of Chinese state-owned enterprises strengthened workers ' incentives. The managers paid more in bonuses and hired more workers on fixed-term ..."
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When the responsibility for output decisions was shifted from the state to the firm, and when firms were allowed to retain more of their profits, managers of Chinese state-owned enterprises strengthened workers ' incentives. The managers paid more in bonuses and hired more workers on fixed
Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs
- Journal of Public Economics
, 2001
"... Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur. We derive conditions under which completely selfinterested en ..."
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entrepreneurs opt for not-for-profit status, despite the fact that this status limits their ability to enjoy the profits of their enterprises. We also show that even in the absence of tax advantages, unrestricted donations would flow to non-profits rather than for-profit firms because donations have more
Does better nutrition raise farm productivity? J Pol Econ.
, 1986
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about
37. PROFITABILITY OF AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS IN
"... One of the major considerations of farmers in making a decision on the combination of enterprises they will adopt on their farms is the returns to the various factors of production, with more importance given to the more scarce resources. A comparison of the profitability of a range of farming syste ..."
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One of the major considerations of farmers in making a decision on the combination of enterprises they will adopt on their farms is the returns to the various factors of production, with more importance given to the more scarce resources. A comparison of the profitability of a range of farming
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