This article explores how the phenomenon of entrepreneurship can reinforce itself but also tends to carry the seed of its own eventual demise. We review evidence from theory and empirical studies of these ‘breed’ and ‘kill’ tendencies at individual, inter-individual, firm, industry, regional and national levels of analysis. Policy implications are discussed, especially with regards to current a...

In network organisations and electronic commerce control mechanisms to guarantee inter-organisational contract compliance are important tools to enhance trust in a fair business transaction. We propose the e-value/control design methodology for designing controls for network organisations. The e-value/control design methodology is an extension of the e-value design methodology for business mode...

An old and fundamental problem in databases and data streams is that of finding the heavy hitters, also known as the top-k, most popular items, frequent items, elephants, or iceberg queries. There are several variants of this problem, which quantify what it means for an item to be frequent, including what are known as the `1-heavy hitters and `2-heavy hitters. There are a number of algorithmic ...

the present study used different categories of organized sector manufacturing industries pooled data for the periods of 1981-82 and 2007-08 in haryana state (india). the present undertaking seeks to analyze the inter-temporal and inter-industry comparison of total factor productivity (tfp) measured by malmquist productivity index - an application of dea which calculates the indices of tfp and i...

There is a substantial literature in economics on intra-firm product combinations such as bundling and tying. Little is known, however, about the economic implications of inter-firm product combinations. We propose and estimate a model to study pricing strategies and the welfare effects of this practice, focusing on the pharmaceutical industry. We find that firms increase their profits by parti...

This study quantitatively assesses two alternative explanations for inter-industry wage differentials: worker heterogeneity in the form of unobserved quality and firm heterogeneity in the form of the firm’s willingness to pay (WTP) for workers’productive attributes. We develop an empirical model of labor demand and apply a two-stage nonparametric procedure to recover worker and firm heterogenei...