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Institutions, networks and entrepreneurship development in Russia: an exploration

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - 2006

. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …

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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network

Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model’s underlying mechanisms. …

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Entrepreneurship, development, and the spatial context: Retrospect and prospect

Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …

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Role of strong versus weak networks in small business growth in an emerging economy

Kozan, M. Kamil; Akdeniz, Levent - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 1, pp. 35-50

The study tests whether strong rather than weak ties account for small business growth in Turkey. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire filled out by the owners of small firms operating in four cities. Growth is comprised of two main areas, production expansion and knowledge...

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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - 2015

CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …

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Knowledge spillovers and absorptive capacity - institutional evidence from the 'German Mittelstand'

Proeger, Till - 2017

Recent extensions to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) show that the successful …

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On regional innovator networks as hubs for innovative ventures

Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016

At least since Schumpeter published his work "The Theory of Economic Development" (1912), a wide body of literature has focused on the evolutionary process behind firm growth and survival. Recently a growing interest is devoted to the variable "location" as a critical factor, shaping firm...

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Guanxi, performance and innovation in entrepreneurial service projects.

Arribas, Iván; Hernández, Penélope; Vila, Jose E. - Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar Comportament … - 2012

This paper analyzes the role played by two dimensions of entrepreneurs’ private social capital in the survival, growth and innovativeness of entrepreneurial service ventures: local size and preferential attachment degree. We build a bi-dimensional measure of social capital based on network...

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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …

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