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Patients with SLE have higher risk of cardiovascular events and mortality in comparison with controls with the same levels of traditional risk factors and intima-media measures, which is related to accumulated disease damage and antiphospholipid syndrome Vrije Universiteit Brussel
OBJECTIVE: SLE is a strong risk factor for premature cardiovascular (CV) disease and mortality. We investigated which factors could explain poor prognosis in SLE compared with controls.
METHODS: Patients with SLE and population controls without history of clinical CV events who performed carotid ultrasound examination were recruited for this study. The outcome was incident CV event and death. Event-free survival rates were compared ...
Joining the dots: building the evidence base for SME growth policy Ghent University
This introductory article to the special issue on building the evidence base for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth policy reviews the themes covered by the contributions to the special issue and identifies a number of directions for future research and policy.
Gendered regulations and SME performance in transition economies Ghent University
Formal business networking and SME growth Ghent University
Enjoying or refraining from risk? The impact of implicit need for achievement and risk perception on SME internationalization University of Antwerp Ghent University
Purpose This study aims to explore how an entrepreneur's implicit need for achievement and risk reception contribute to internationalization performance. Design/methodology/approach This study involves 176 Indonesian entrepreneurs. The authors use the Operant Motive Test to assess the entrepreneur's implicit needs and apply hierarchical Tobit regression to assess the interplay between implicit need for achievement, risk perception and ...
CSR and Related Terms in SME Owner-Managers' Mental Models in Six European Countries: National Context Matters KU Leuven Ghent University
Abstract As a contribution to the emerging field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) cognition, this article reports on the findings of an exploratory study that compares SME owner–managers’ mental models with regard to CSR and related concepts across six European countries (Belgium, Italy, Norway, France, UK, Spain). Utilising Repertory Grid Technique, we found that the SME owner– managers’ mental models show a few commonalities as well as ...
Employment protection legislation and SME performance University of Antwerp KU Leuven
This article examines the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance. Rather than relying on country-specific proxies for EPL, as is common in the literature, we compute firm-specific measures of a firm's exposure to EPL by using a panel dataset of 13,112 Belgian SMEs for the period between 2000 and 2009. The empirical results show that firms perform better when faced with lower ...