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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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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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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector

Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008

ensuring price and financial stability. [Bharti Annual Lecture at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India …

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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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Who Creates Jobs?

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O’Connell, Stephen D - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 70, pp. 1-7

entrepreneurship in India is still evolving. It is worrying that there are too few entrepreneurs in India for its stage of development …. Yet there is no question that entrepreneurship works—cities and states that have embraced entrepreneurship have created … more jobs. However, the link between entrepreneurship and job growth is not automatic. Cities that have a higher quality of …

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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 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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Entrepreneurship capital and economic growth

Audretsch, David B. - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 15, pp. 27-45

This paper shows how and why the Solow growth accounting framework is useful for linking entrepreneurship capital to … knowledge investments on economic growth. By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link … between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. Entrepreneurship is an important mechanism permeating the knowledge …

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