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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884187
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Entrepreneur et croissance économique : développements récents
Facchini, François - In: Revue d'économie industrielle n° 119 (2007) 3, pp. 3-3
The objet of this article is to present the important literature that developed on the border of economic sciences and management around the role of the entrepreneur in the economic growth, and to discuss its main conclusions. The message of these works is simple: without entrepreneur, no or...
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Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners
Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256160
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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries
Carree, M.A.; Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288756
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Small business in Russia: A Case Study of St. Petersburg
Kihlgren, Alessandro - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
The reasons why small business development has been disappointing in Russia compared with other transition countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic are here analyzed. It is, however, suggested that the picture may not be so gloomy as official statistics suggest. As far as St. Petersburg...
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How do firms choose legal form of organization?
Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this study, we analyze the firm’s choice of legal form of organization (“LFO”). We find that only about one in three firms begins operations as a proprietorship, while almost as many begin as limited-liability companies and as corporations. Moreover, this distribution is remarkably...
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THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP MODEL OF BUSINESS EDUCATION: BUILDING KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Singh, Rahul; Mishra, Jitendra Kumar; Singh, Mahesh Kumar - Gazdaság- és Társadalomtudományi Kar, Szent István … - 2008
Business education around the globe is similar in one aspect that it needs to track the economic developments and train the students with the latest models of operations. The serious faces of the education institutions come only from the high standards of the research and percolation of the same...
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Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross - School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study - 2011
We model technological and ?nancial innovation as re?ecting the decisions of pro?t maximizing agents and explore the implications for economic growth. We start with a Schumpeterian growth model where entrepreneurs earn pro?ts by inventing better goods and ?nanciers arise to screen entrepreneurs....
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Entrepreneurship Education and Training in a Small Business Context: Insights from the Competence-based Approach
Lans, Lans, T.; Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Baert, Baert, H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
entrepreneurship education research and practice. Although the concept has been the subject of strong debate in educational research in … general, critical analysis of how it has been used, applied and experienced in entrepreneurship education practice is scarce … discussing the concept. Subsequently, the implications of applying a competence-based approach in entrepreneurship education are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731446
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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries
Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731490