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What works in supporting women-led businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...

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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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Schumpeterian Entry : Innovation, Exporting, and Growth Aspirations of Entrepreneurs

Estrin, Saul - 2020

We posit that entrepreneurs who engage in strategic activities will have high growth aspirations. Our proposed mechanism is that strategic engagements, specifically product innovation, process innovation and internationalization, open entrepreneurial ventures to learning, and thereby greater...

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On the Compatibility of Benevolence and Self-Interest : Philanthropy and Entrepreneurial Orientation

Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2016

compatible and even mutually-reinforcing with entrepreneurship. Our study is set in a transition economy, Lithuania, facilitating …

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Frontiers of entrepreneurship research 2015 : proceedings of the thirty-fifth annual Entrepreneurship Research Conference

Zacharakis, Andrew (ed.); Arthurs, Jonathan (ed.); … - Entrepreneurship Research Conference <35., 2015, …; … - 2015

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Homophily and peer influence in early-stage new venture informal investment

Qin, Fei; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Estrin, Saul - In: Small business economics : an international journal 59 (2022) 1, pp. 93-116

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Networking entrepreneurs

Vega-Redondo, Fernando; Pin, Paolo; Ubfal, Diego; … - 2024

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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem

Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014

This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...

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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2020

A randomized controlled trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive short-term impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men and disappear 12 months after the training. The main channel is increased adoption of recommended business...

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Peer networks and entrepreneurship : a Pan-African RCT

Vega-Redondo, Fernando; Pin, Paolo; Ubfal, Diego; … - 2019

Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …

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