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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs through the Business Cycle
Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2011
We construct a simple model of occupational choice among agents with differing abilities. The fraction of agents creating new businesses who are low ability rises during recessions. Thus, cohorts born during recessions are on average lower quality: their businesses yield lower initial earnings,...
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Entrepreneurs: Jacks of all Trades or Hobos?
Astebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007
Human capital investment theory suggests that entrepreneurs should be generalists, while those who work for others should be specialists; it also predicts higher incomes for entrepreneurs with generalist skills. An alternative view predicts that those with greater taste for variety are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190289
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A consumption-based measure of the monetary rewards to entrepreneurship
Krichevskiy, Dmitriy - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2010
Recent findings by Hamilton (Journal of Political Economy, 2000) suggest that the self-employed do not receive a monetary premium for the risk and uncertainty associated with business ownership. In this paper, I show that that income underreporting by entrepreneurs can explain the lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764790
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Harnessing knowledge dynamics : principled organizational knowing & learning
Nissen, Mark E. - 2006
practical. It also complements the many existing management books on strategy, technology, knowledge and systems while … addressing a well-recognized and significant void. It draws from the emerging knowledge-flow theory to provide stable principles … to build a practice of knowledge management. It also draws from diverse, real-world experience to provide operational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011726223
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Technology literacy applications in learning environments
Carbonara, David D. (contributor) - 2005
divide / Ellen Whybrow -- 17. Learning to become a knowledge-centric organization / George Stonehouse, Jonathan D. Pemberton …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011726637
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Handbook of research on maximizing cognitive learning through knowledge visualization
Ursyn, Anna (ed.) - 2015
language (VPCL): visual system and method for teaching and learning programming and problem solving through knowledge … / Pamela G. Taylor -- Bringing the arts as data to visualize how knowledge works / Lihua Xu, Read Diket, Thomas Brewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011728183
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Learning with mobile technologies, handheld devices, and smart phones : innovative methods
Lu, Zhongyu (contributor) - 2012
1. Mobile Exam System--MES: architecture for database management system / Joan Lu ... [et al.] -- 2. A mobile learning content-independent versatile ubiquitous system (CiVUS) / Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, Diogo Videira Sousa, Isabel de la Torre -- 3. An investigation in potential technology in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011727368
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Academic entrepreneurship and technological innovation : a business management perspective
Karwowski, Waldemar (contributor);  … - 2013
India / Neeta Baporikar -- Introducing a science-to-business marketing unit to university knowledge and technology transfer … to academic entrepreneurship / Roman Batko -- Cultivating entrepreneurial thinking through a management of innovation and … technology course: evidence from the University of Nicosia / Despo Ktoridou -- Regional innovation system in Lower Silesia: key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011727545
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Entrepreneurship and innovations in e-business : an integrative perspective
Zhao, Fang (contributor) - 2006
"The book presents a comprehensive introduction of the concepts and practices of e-entrepreneurship and e-innovation …1. Entrepreneurship and innovation in e-business : an integrative perspective / Fang Zhao -- 2. Exploring rhizomic … becomings in post dot-com crash networks : a Deleuzian approach to emergent knowledge dynamics / Alexandra Steinberg -- 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011726106
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Information technology entrepreneurship and innovation
Zhao, Fang - 2008
understanding of knowledge dynamics of innovation in business networks / Alexandra Steinburg -- … : an Islamic perspective / Muhammad Mohtsham Saeed -- 16. Supporting innovation through knowledge management in the …"This book presents current studies on the nature, process and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011726278