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Contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship : frontiers in european entrepreneurship research
Xheneti, Mirela (ed.); Costa, Silvia (ed.);  … - 2023
"The contextual turn in the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars to integrate into their research … the multifaceted contexts in which entrepreneurship is embedded. This insightful book explores the different spatial …, social, digital, institutional and policy contexts for entrepreneurship and investigates their relevance for entrepreneurship …
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854540
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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization
Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856410
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Entrepreneurship and the National System of Innovation - What is Missing in Turkey?
Bascavusoglu-Moreau, Elif - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behaviour and/or to the weaknesses of the Turkish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856468
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Firm Ownership, FOEs, and POEs
Amsden, Alice - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
Where the theory of free competition reigns, developing countries should open their arms to investments from all types of enterprises in order to maximize jobs. Ownership, measured by votes of shareholders or boards of directors, is immaterial to performance. Matters change drastically, though,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856484
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262763
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366435
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643215
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Entrepreneurial Activity and Civil War in Colombia: Exploring the Mutual Determinants between Armed Conflict and the Private Sector
Rettberg, Angelika; Leiteritz, Ralf; Nasi, Carlo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
TAs elsewhere, the Colombian private sector has been accused of promoting or profiting from violence in the country. However, the private sector’s role in the armed conflict and the impact of conflict on entrepreneurial activity vary, as reflected by differences in political activism, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456282
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Non-state Sovereign Entrepreneurs and Non-territorial Sovereign Organizations
Brauer1, Jurgen; Haywood, Robert - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456284