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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri
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Virtue as Competence in the Entrepreneurial Society
Karlson, Nils; Fergin, Elina - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …
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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization
Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naud� - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Bruck, Tilman; Naude, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the …
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
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The Economic Legacy of Civil War: Firm Level Evidence from Sierra Leone
Collier, Paul; Duponche, Marguerite - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
This paper positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based upon household surveys. The originality of the present study is that it investigates for the first time the likely predominant route by which...
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Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into … entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the …
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