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The Quantitative Study of Factors Determining Business Decisions

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  • George Katona
  • James N. Morgan

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I. Personal interviews with a representative sample of business executives, 67; sampling, 69; interviewing, 70. — II. Study of industrial mobility, 72; advantages of Michigan location, 72; disadvantages of Michigan location, 76; qualitative information, 78; conclusions, 81. — III. Study of investment decisions, 82; the direct question of why, 83; correlation analysis, 86; detailed analysis of correlation cells, 88; summary, 89.

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  • George Katona & James N. Morgan, 1952. "The Quantitative Study of Factors Determining Business Decisions," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 66(1), pages 67-90.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:66:y:1952:i:1:p:67-90.
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    5. John Sibley Butler & Rajiv Garg & Bryan Stephens, 2020. "Social Networks, Funding, and Regional Advantages in Technology Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Analysis," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 31(1), pages 198-216, March.
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    8. Harrington, David Nobles, 1962. "Statistical analysis of corn storage costs: Iowa elevators," ISU General Staff Papers 196201010800003098, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    9. Olav Sorenson, 2018. "Social networks and the geography of entrepreneurship," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 51(3), pages 527-537, October.
    10. Giovanni Dosi & Giorgio Fagiolo & Andrea Roventini, 2006. "An Evolutionary Model of Endogenous Business Cycles," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 27(1), pages 3-34, February.
    11. Franz-Josef Bade, 1983. "Locational Behaviour and the Mobility of Firms in West Germany," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 20(3), pages 279-297, August.
    12. Koós, Bálint, 2007. "A szuburbanizációs folyamat a magyar gazdaságban [The suburbanization process in the Hungarian economy]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(4), pages 334-349.

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