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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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Diversity as a motive for entrepreneurship?: The case of gender, culture and ethnicity

Alexandre-Leclair, Laurice - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 157-175

Diversity is increasingly considered as a motive for entrepreneurship. In our article, we set the hypothesis that … one about the link between culture, ethnicity and entrepreneurship and the other one about gender and entrepreneurship. We … also discuss the last study led by OECD (2012) on gender entrepreneurship. Our article reveals that culture and ethnicity …

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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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Chinaâ€™s Institutional Architecture: A New Institutional Economics and Organization Theory Perspective on the Links between Local Governance and Local Enterprises

Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008

We start our exploration of Chinaâ€™s institutional change by asking what the China experience can tell us about institutional economics and organization theory. We point to under-researched areas such as the formation of firms and the interplay between firms and local politics. Our...

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The Contribution of "Empreender Project" to the Development of Micro and Small Enterprises' Networks at Santa Catarina State (Brazil)

Cardoso, Cristiane - Centro de Investigação sobre Espaços e … - 2011

In a globalized and increasingly competitive market, the organization of micro and small enterprises in network structures warrants the survival and competitiveness of companies and consequent development of the regions where they act. The “Empreender Project” has been a key factor for the...

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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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THE EFFECTS OF NETWORK’S STRUCTURAL HOLES: POLYCENTRIC INSTITUTIONS, PRODUCT PORTFOLIO, AND NEW VENTURE GROWTH IN CHINA AND RUSSIA

Batjargal, Bat - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2012

This study examines the effect of network’s structural holes, i.e., the absence of a link between two contacts who are both linked to an actor, on product development and profit growth of software ventures in two different institutional contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159...

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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925–2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

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EUROPEAN TRENDS IN THE CONFIGURATION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE IN ROMANIA

Dinu, Mircea Alexandru - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 11(516)(supplement)(vol2) (2007) 11(516)(supplement)(vol2), pp. 183-188

The present essay sets out to present a picture of the potential for development of Romanian entrepreneurship. The … phenomenon of globalization at the level of the world market. The study of entrepreneurship as a phenomenon sees a growing … of the ways mentioned by the European Council is that of encouraging entrepreneurship, the aim being the creation of a …

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The Emergence of a Private Business Sector in China

Hendrischke, Hans; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

This paper is part of a broader research project that aims to analyse the emerging private business sector in China by focusing on three topics.

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