New firms are crucial for economic growth and development, especially in the knowledge-intensive service and manufacturing industries that compose an increasing portion of developed economies. As many new firms fail and performance varies widely for surviving firms, studying new firm entry and pre-formation processes is necessary but not sufficient to create increased understanding of the important contribution of new firms to economic growth. In order to better understand and possibly predict economic development we must also understand the drivers and dynamic of new firm survival and performance. Absorptive capacity is an established firm-level capability theory that explains sustained firm performance through the interaction of internal capabilities and competencies and the access and assimilation of external knowledge and information. However, absorptive capacity was mainly developed by studying established firms. In this dissertation I develop new measures of absorptive capacity suitable for empirical research on new micro firms; specifically using human capital as a proxy for the knowledge acquisition component and organizational tenure to represent the knowledge assimilation and exploitation component of absorptive capacity. Developing and testing a conceptual model of new firm performance including these measures on a panel dataset of knowledge-intensive new firms in Sweden 1995-2002, I find that absorptive capacity is a useful theory to explain several aspects of new firm terminations, acquisitions, and profitability. In developing and testing these new measures, this dissertation provides theoretical and methodological contributions to the empirical entrepreneurship literature for the benefit of researchers, policy-makers, and industry practitioners with an interest in new firm survival and performance. / <p>Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2009</p>

Att gå från en nationell till en internationell etablering innebär en finansiell risk, men samtidigt stora möjligheter för en modeentreprenör. Frankrike anses som en av de viktigaste modemarknaderna i världen och så även för modeentreprenörer. Marknaden karakteriseras av lyxmode, men få svenska modeentreprenörer lyckas etablera sig i detta segment. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka vilka utmaningar som kan uppkomma för svenska modeentreprenörer vid etablering på den franska marknaden inom lyxsegmentet. Avgränsningar har gjorts i enlighet med studiens syfte, för att kunna besvara studiens frågeställningar och för att kunna lyfta upp resultatet ur sin kontext och applicera på internationellt entreprenörskap inom lyxsegmentet. Utlandsbaserat entreprenörskap behandlas genom att studiens fokus har lagts på etablering på den franska marknaden och lyxsegmentet. Kvalitativa intervjuer och ett kvantitativt frågeformulär har använts för att skapa en bred och djup förståelse för hur svenska modeentreprenörer resonerar kring internationellt entreprenörskap inom modebranschen generellt, och på den franska marknaden inom lyxsegmentet i synnerhet. Generella etableringsteorier kring utlandsbaserat entreprenörskap och lyxmarknaden samt internationaliseringsprocesser presenteras. Resultatet visar att den franska marknaden och dess lyxsegment till stora drag är som andra internationella marknader inom Europa. Marknadens långa historia inom lyxsegmentering har dock medfört att den har utvecklat institutioner och ramverk för lyxmodeföretag. Dessa fakta kan innebära såväl möjligheter som utmaningar. / Expanding a business into international markets poses some significant financial risks, but also presents business opportunities for a fashion entrepreneur. The French fashion market is one of the most powerful in the world, which makes the market important for fashion entrepreneurs. The market is characterized by luxury goods, but few Swedish fashion entrepreneurs succeed with establishment in the luxury segment. This thesis aims to examine the challenges that might arise when entering the french market and luxury segment as a swedish fashion entrepreneaur. The major focus of the study is international entrepreneurship, and the reserach has been carried out to benefit the wider industry. In order to perform the research a combination of the qualitative and quantiative approach has been used. Internationalization processes, general establishment theories of international entrepreneurship and definitions of the luxury market and luxury segmentation are presented. The qualitative data was collected through three in-depth interviews. The interviews were held with one professor, one swedish company established as a luxury company on the frenchmarket, and one swedish fashion company in the higher price segment that has been established on the french market. The quantiative data was collected through a questionnarie put out to 20 new-established fashion companies in the higher price segment. The results show that there is indeed a correspondance between luxury segmentation and establishment on the french market and establishement on international markets in Europe. But, the long history of luxury segmentation in France have resulted in institutions and frameworks for fashion luxury companies and the luxury industry. These facts can mean both opportunities and challenges for swedish fashion entrepreneurs.

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2006.

Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2009.

This master thesis discusses main characteristics and the process of establishment of joint stock company in the Czech Republic. At first the work analyses the process of establishment of joint stock company through statutes of a joint stock company formation and their mandatory and optional elements. Next part of the thesis deals with the process of creation of the joint stock company by registration to the Commercial Register. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the legislation related to the establishment of joint stock company and to show some general patterns concerning establishment of joint stock company for potential founders.

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This thesis deals with the conditions of influence to the establishment and operation of amusement centers in our country and abroad. It focuses to cooperation of centers and tourism. The goal is to compare the default conditions, which affect the future functioning. The first part deals with the legal conditions that influence the establishment of the company. Next is about the possibilities of financing. The second part deals with tourism. It describes the types of tourism, its development and bringing positive and negative effects. The third part deals to amusement parks. It is an analysis of selected areas, local supply and analysis of selected amusement center. Thesis includes research part, which survey the view of potential clients. Default motive was to find out whether people are interested in similar parks, what they expect and what their experience is. In case of analysis of individual centers is the goal to describe the structure of prosperous companies.