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Social responsibility of the state and business as a factor of competitiveness and economic growth
Fylyppova Iryna H.; Sumtsov Viktor H. - In: The Problems of Economy (2014) 1, pp. 163-172
prospects of economic growth. The authors proceed from three quite evident assumptions: first - development of entrepreneurship … influence of social factors upon development of entrepreneurship, competitiveness and economic growth, the authors reveal …
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Caractéristiques des entrepreneurs et conception de leurs business plans : le cas des primés au concours du Réseau Entreprendre Paris
Hikkerova, Lubica; Paré, Jean-Louis; Rédis, Jean; … - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014
In this article, we propose a method to evaluate enterprise creation projects based on the study of profiles of entrepreneurs and project teams, as well as external factors. This method is based on the theories of human capital and social capital, notabl
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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 Role of Social Capital in Nascent Agri-Food Industries: A Case Study of Michigan Chestnut Growers, Inc.
Ross, Brent R.; Victor, Nathaniel - In: Journal of Food Distribution Research 44 (2013) 1
Despite early financial and organizational struggles, Chestnut Growers Inc. continues to play a central role in the industry and membership has increased. The purpose of this study is to explore this apparent paradox. We apply concepts from management and organizational theory to provide a...
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La construction sociale du marché des très petites entreprises. Des réseaux sociaux au capital social local des entrepreneurs. L'exemple de l'arrondissement Lensois
Plociniczak, Sébastien - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine juillet (2003) 3, pp. 441-476
reality of entrepreneurship does not correspond to the atomized representation offered by the standard economic. Contrary to … to update the embeddedness of the entrepreneurship within networks of local relations, devices of the territorial … organization entitling and restricting the entrepreneurship. More precisely, the object of this article is to highlight the …
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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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Кластерные стратегии и кластерные инициативы: перспективы и факторы эффективной кластеризации
Filippova, Irina; Mindlin, Yuri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
successful clustering is the development of entrepreneurship, and the expected result (i.e. the purpose of cluster initiatives … potential of entrepreneurship’s development. It allows not only to substantiate the thesis about the dominant influence of … social factors but also to reveal the implicit contradiction between the social and economic aspects of entrepreneurship able …
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The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium-sized Firms: The Importance of Social Capital and Networking in Innovative Entrepreneurship
Hulsink, W.; Elfring, T.; Stam, W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and...
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China’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 China’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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Social capital configurations for necessity-driven versus opportunity-driven entrepreneurs
Urban, Boris - In: South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 14 (2011) 4, pp. 407-421
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