Recent Submissions

  • Go Ape case study (Part B): eight hundred pound gorilla? 

    Hussels, Stephanie; Molian, David (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2010)
    The case study continues the story of GoApe!, a fast-growth entrepreneurial success story started in 2002 by the husband and wife team of Tristram and Rebecca Mayhew. Part B describes the first three years of growth of the ...
  • Go Ape case study (Part A): monkeying around? 

    Hussels, Stephanie; Molian, David (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2010)
    The case study tells the story of GoApe!, a fast-growth entrepreneurial success story started in 2002 by the husband and wife team of Tristram and Rebecca Mayhew. The case study is split into Parts A and B. Part A poses ...
  • Co-movement and causality between self-employment, unemployment and business cycle in the EU-12 

    Carmona, Mónica; Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A. (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2010)
    The current crisis has generated a renewed interest in the business cycle. In particular, the search of alternative solutions to the traditional ones has lead to a re-examination of the role of certain key economic variables ...
  • From own-account worker to job creator 

    Congregado, Emilio; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2010)
    This study aims to increase our understanding of the contribution of the self-employed to the job creation process by investigating the individual decision of hiring employees. Our framework considers the individual decision ...