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Compared to other ethnic groups, the black population of South Africa has a low participation rate in entrepreneurship …, merit further investigation with respect to the question of why there is a lack of black entrepreneurship in South Africa. …
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In this paper, we compare the intentionality of students in graduate business programs in the United States and China toward becoming entrepreneurs. We utilize Amabile's Work Preference Inventory (WPI) to examine the motivational dimension of entrepreneurial intentionality and the Theory of...
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This study examines the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth by using a new variable based on patent data to … proxy for productive entrepreneurship. Data on self-employment is used as an alternative proxy. The study considers 22 OECD … countries and finds a positive relationship between the proposed measure of productive entrepreneurship — degree of …
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relatively large amount of specific human capital, social capital and self-confidence relevant for entrepreneurship. The paper …
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Residential segregation has played a central role in theories of minority entrepreneurship. This study integrates two …
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This study proposes that cooperative efforts in microlending aid economic development and poverty alleviation in transitioning and developing countries by creating networking systems in which people can expand their businesses through working capital and community cooperation. Two field studies...
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entrepreneurship as self-employment and economic development. Furthermore, studies show that the process of entrepreneurship has …
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …
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