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Austria: Distributive Effects of Social Insurance Contributions, Income Tax and Monetary Social Benefits on the Household Level
In a European comparison Austria shows above-average levels of both taxation and social expenditures. The analyses carried out show that the high levels of…
Offline brands in an online world
Brigitte Mueller, an Assistant Professor in Marketing at the HEC Faculty of Business and Economics at Lausanne, first asks whether consistency between a…
Financing alliance on Top of Europe on its way
The primary aim is to overcome the lack of risk willing financing in the early SME development phases. The lack of financing dramatically lowers the number of…
Valuable Informal Relationships
Organisations are concerned with knowledge. They would like to stand out as knowledge companies and knowledge intensive organisations, where employees have,…
Motivation of Small Business Managers Affects Firm Growth
Researchers gathered information from two different Swedish samples of small firms. The managing director was asked about employment and sales growth as well…
Brazil's biotech firms: From imitators to innovators in health-related products
Brazil is in the midst of a transition from imitator to innovator in health-related products, according to the most comprehensive analysis to date of barriers…