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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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relatively large amount of specific human capital, social capital and self-confidence relevant for entrepreneurship. The paper …
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key differences between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs' perceptions and attitudes toward entrepreneurship. More than … in the UAE. Arab expatriates in particular, have higher entrepreneurship rates compared to other nationality groups … factors like income and employment have a significant influence in determining entrepreneurship activity in the UAE …
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This paper examines the nature of the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in the West Bank of the … evidence the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth; second, to explore the effect of two control variables on the … GDP and unemployment. The results show that contrary to a reservoir of research, entrepreneurship appeared to have no …
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This study examines the effect of rurality on early-stage necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship among women and … counties have a higher probability of engaging in opportunity entrepreneurship. This probability increases with college … also increases their probability of engaging in opportunity entrepreneurship. College education and being African American …
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What makes nascent entrepreneurs get their businesses up and running? We answer this by examining in a broad and unifying way: motivation and cognition, knowledge and experience and social support. We apply extensive multivariate analyses to a sample of 338 nascent entrepreneurs from the PSED...
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informal entrepreneurship. To do this, it first reviews four possible policy options, namely taking no action, eradicating … informal entrepreneurship, moving formal entrepreneurship into the informal economy, or transforming informal entrepreneurship … into formal entrepreneurship. Revealing that transforming informal entrepreneurship into formal entrepreneurship is not …
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Unlike large firms with management teams, small businesses are usually run by one key person, the owner-entrepreneur, who bears almost all of the risks and makes most of the decisions related to the business. Because the owner-entrepreneur also embodies most of the firm-specific knowledge...
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In recent years, there has been growing recognition in the entrepreneurship literature that many entrepreneurs operate … those who are principally intentional participants in informal entrepreneurship are men. However, many women who initially … entered informal entrepreneurship out of necessity have over time become more opportunity-driven entrepreneurs. The outcome is …
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