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We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per capita consumption xpenditure …
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the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …
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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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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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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
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Building on a Lewis-type model of structural change and entrepreneurship we show how a global economic crisis …
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This policy brief provides some fresh perspectives on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development, and …”, which aimed to understand whether and how entrepreneurship matters for development, how it could derail development, how … entrepreneurs function in high growth as well as in conflict environments, and how female entrepreneurship differs across countries …
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The current research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of … unproductive entrepreneurship has been examined, destructive entrepreneurship has been largely ignored. We build from existing … theory and define destructive entrepreneurship as wealth-destroying. We propose three assumptions to develop a model of …
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It is often claimed that entrepreneurship is indispensable for economic growth and development. These claims are mostly … generated by scholars working in the field of entrepreneurship andmanagement studies. In contrast, development economics … scholars seem to be less concerned about entrepreneurship in the development process Who is right? I show that the arguments …
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Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that …) opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii …) governance and the start-up costs are not significant determinants of opportunity entrepreneurship; and (iii) better governance …
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