Updating Seminal Studies of Entrepreneurial Researchers in the 60's to the 90's

ABSTRACT

As early as the 1960's various researchers of African and Nigerian small business and entrepreneurship like P. Schatz, P. Kilby, J. Harris and M. Rowe, A. Ale, W. Nafziger, J. Wilde and others have been debating. Their argument is with attempt to trace and identify the factors which continue to stunt the growth and development of small and medium enterprises (SME's) and entrepreneurship in Africa and in Nigeria. The investigations carried out by these and other researchers on this subject should be accepted as pertinent and justifiable. This is especially so, in consideration of the abundant availability of both natural and mineral resources for use as raw materials within the continent. In addition, enormous amount of funds has been expended alongside immense attention and effort by governments towards the development of small-scale industries and entrepreneurship. A number of external factors therefore, like inadequate infrastructure, scarcity of machines, spare parts and equipment, lack of information, paucity of raw material supplies and problem with government policies and officials as well as cultural factors have been identified among the most serious obstacles. Internal factors such as poor organizational planning, problems of succession, inadequate re-investment of profits, lack of capital and poor managerial skills have also been noted by other researchers as main growth barriers. This research updated earlier work done by these different groups of researchers with reference to the small plastics manufacturing sector in Nigeria to see if there have been any changes in the last 10-30 years of study. The findings revealed that there has hardly been any significant difference in terms of improvement especially of external constraints observed between the 1960's and 1990's. However, the study found a number of progressive internal improvements being applied in other small plastic manufacturing businesses. Recently, some small plastics manufacturing entrepreneurs on their own initiative have learned to create and innovate various ways of coping with constraints facing their businesses independently.     

略论风险投资及在我国的状况

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客户型文化促进了企业创新吗?——来自中国制造业上市公司的经验证据

客户型文化是市场经济环境下企业重要的文化维度,是企业内部控制环境的组成部分,促使企业和客户之间的隐性契约得到较好地履行,有利于合作创新的开展.文章对客户型文化促进企业创新进行理论分析,并以2010-2017年A股制造业上市公司作为样本,实证检验了企业客户型文化对创新绩效的影响以及其中的中介路径.研究结果表明:(1)企业客户型文化对企业专利申请数有明显的促进作用;(2)降低大客户的波动性、增加客户的异质性和缓解企业的融资约束是客户型文化促进企业创新的中介路径.     

珠三角中小企业融资问题研究

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Equilibrium in a reinsurance market with short sale constraints

Summary. This paper deals with the existence of equilibrium in a dynamic reinsurance market with short sale constraints, driven by a marked point process, as studied in Bernis and Jouini (2001). We use the set of reinsurance treaties as consumption set, which is the positive orthant of some Banach lattice that can be identified to a space of martingales, . The properness of preferences is a key assumption for us to prove the existence of an equilibrium. We provide a sufficient condition for the preferences to be proper in term of loading factor of the reinsurance premium. Received: June 15, 2000; revised version: May 17, 2001     

The distinction between commercial and non-commercial bus services in Germany: Given by nature?

German public transport services by bus are characterized by a regulatory framework that distinguishes between commercial and non-commercial services. Contrary to the apparent views of legislators, this paper shows that costs and revenues are not the only parameters determining whether or not operators are able to provide services in a commercially viable way.Apart from the local characteristics of the specific service, we show that the classification of services as commercial versus non-commercial is determined in large part by the public transport authorities that set minimum quality standards to be provided by operators. Our analysis shows that the authorities awarding the contracts in some cases affect market organization significantly depending on how they make use of this power. Furthermore, market organization differs substantially with respect to the awarding structure and the contractual relationships, thus creating a challenge for operators and authorities in an embryonic market.     

金融稳定视角下金融支持实体经济能力的实证研究——以新疆为例

在当前国际金融危机深层次影响不断显现、国内宏观经济下行压力加大、区域经济加快发展的背景下,如何进一步优化配置金融资源,提升金融对实体经济的支持力度和支持效率就显得尤为迫切。本文从金融稳定的角度出发,首先从总量、结构、效率、可持续性等几个维度对当前新疆金融服务实体经济能力进行现状判断,并从宏观角度对金融发展与实体经济发展不相适应方面进行分析。其次,基于金融效率,运用统计方法对新疆金融支持实体经济发展能力进行实证检验,得出新疆金融业自身发展对支持实体经济发展的影响作用明显的结论。最后,就如何进一步提高金融支持实体经济的能力提出相关建议。     

未确认融资费用的实际利率摊销法研究——资金时间价值轴上的全新思路

本文从财务管理时间价值角度阐述未确认融资费用如何合理分摊的问题,提出了与一般会计实务教材标准解法完全相反的思路,得到了相同的效果,并对两种解题思路作了详细的比较分析,并在此基础上提出有关会计计量的若干假说。     

投资者情绪与中国上市公司实际投资

本文运用行为公司金融理论,针对中国股票市场特殊的市场环境、制度背景提出可检验假设,验证由投资者情绪导致的股票错误定价对我国上市公司实际投资的影响.通过划分样本区间在市场反转的框架下分析主导机制和迎合机制的作用,运用PVAR模型研究主动融资机制的作用,得出如下主要结论:(1)在中国股票市场反转时期迎合机制起着主导作用;(2)上市公司更多的出于操纵的目的迎合投资者强烈的情绪进行实际投资,对最大化流通股股东短期收益考虑的并不多;(3)中国股票市场仍然存在主动融资机制,对于高流通市值公司尤为突出.但现行投、融资行政审批制度的政策约束会造成股票定价偏高--低成本发行新股融资--实际投资上升的传导时滞.     

A theoretical analysis of optimal financing strategies for different types of capital-constrained entrepreneurs

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