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Business startup motives and satisfaction among Swedish selfemployed

Eriksson, Birgitta; Larsson, Patrik; Saruckij, Mark - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 2 (2006) 4, pp. 295-308

This article investigates if satisfaction with being selfemployed is affected by whether the decision to become selfemployed has been made by choice or by force. After a literature review, the hypothesis was that pull factors lead to higher satisfaction than push factors among the selfemployed....

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Micro credit in India: an overview

Sankaran, Mohanan - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 1 (2005) 1, pp. 91-100

The present paper reviews origin, development and growth of the micro credit programme in India. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development in India launched its pilot phase of the Self Help Group Bank Linkage programme in 1992. Self Help Groups have been recognised by the policy...

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What have we learned? Themes from the literature on necessity driven entrepreneurship

Tipu, Syed Awais Ahmad - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 1, pp. 70-91

The aim of this paper is to review the important themes in the literature on necessity driven entrepreneurship and to … entrepreneurship; creation and management of a necessity driven venture; contextualising the necessity entrepreneurship; performance of … a necessity driven venture; and the criticism of necessity driven entrepreneurship. The author argues that the extant …

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Debt financing among native- and immigrant-owned firms: empirical evidence from Swedish small business at start up stage

Yazdanfar, Darush; Abbasian, Saeid - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 422-434

This paper provides evidence on ethnic differences in bank debt financing among small Swedish firms at the start-up stage. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of small firms consisting of 2,814 native- and immigrant-owned firms for year 2008. The method of binary logistic...

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Family firm prerequisites for international business operations: a production and marketing capabilities approach

Kansikas, Juha; Huovinen, Jari; Hyrsky, Kimmo - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 435-448

The purpose of this study is to compare SME family firms' and non-family firms' organisational prerequisites for international business operations. The main focus lies in the production and marketing capabilities needed for conducting international business. A quantitative study was conducted in...

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Burgeoning Chinese postpartum nursing enterprises and birth tourism - the perspective from transaction cost entrepreneurship

Yan, Ho-Don; Chen, Chyong Ling Judy - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 502-518

The one-month confinement (or doing the month, DM) for post-partum women is a tradition that has been practiced for millennia in Chinese society. Tedious preparations and numerous procedures of DM incur high transaction costs when purchasing the service from the market. To assure the practice of...

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What drives firms to operate in south Mediterranean countries?

Caiazza, Rosa - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 519-531

Institutional theory-based studies on firms from developed economies entering emerging economies are helpful to evidence the impact of both formal and informal institutions elements on the strategies of foreign entrants. However, the number of theoretical and empirical studies using an...

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Entrepreneurship, network and community in Marshallian industrial districts

Grandinetti, Roberto - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 449-464

, i.e., the community factor, the network factor and the entrepreneurship factor. Entrepreneurship is the factor that … account of entrepreneurship, it becomes possible to explain the fall of the Marshallian model in the globalisation era. …

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Constraints faced by entrepreneurs in developing countries: a review and assessment

Panda, Swati; Dash, Shridhar - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 405-421

This paper reviews, summarises and ranks the constraints faced by entrepreneurs in developing countries, from an entrepreneur's perspective at a macro level. Given that, developing countries face resource constraints for creation of favourable policy environment for entrepreneurs, the policy...

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An exploratory investigation on new product development in family luxury businesses

Bresciani, Stefano; Bertoldi, Bernardo; Giachino, Chiara; … - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 11 (2015) 2/3, pp. 186-199

In the actual scenario characterised by new and ever-changing dynamics of the global market, firms need to quickly and timely anticipate competitors' next moves, monitor market tastes, adapt their products and properly communicate their positioning. The history of many luxury brands is linked to...

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