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This article describes how “START-UP NY” is a state-funded economic development program that encourages businesses to locate to several of its college campuses in exchange for a 0% tax rate for business and their employees. While the program has received much coverage in the popular press,...
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Sustainable development and entrepreneurship are increasingly high profile issues and matters of importance to … different international agendas. Alongside this interest, there have emerged studies on entrepreneurship and innovation that … bridge the gap that exists in the literature on the relationship between innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship, in the …
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There are a variety of different conditions that support entrepreneurship and affect sustainable development. The aim … variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The geographic regions the authors focus on in the analysis are 1) Asia … entrepreneurship variables with sustainable growth in order to help explain best interventionist priorities to use in order to foster …
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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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Documents a study of the usefulness and quality of websites of small firms in urban and rural areas in Scotland using an adapted Web Assessment Index, originally developed by Gonzalez and Palacios. Contrary to the theoretical gap between practice quality in urban and rural small firms, website...
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Empirical findings of the behaviour of small firms in several countries and of large firms in two countries, indicate that risk taking by some businesses differs from that indicated by the Prospect Theory. Enterprises headed by entrepreneurs are more risk-taking/risk-neutral in the area of...
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. Consequently, since the 1990s Tanzania started promoting SME entrepreneurship to fast-track its economic growth and development. A …
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Green investments can greatly contribute to finance small innovative sustainable businesses, especially in less developed countries (LDCs) where capital is scarce. However, there is a lack of human resources capacity both in the firms and especially in the investor side. Even though there are...
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This study is analysing non-family employees' perceptions on psychological ownership during the family business succession process. Three small family companies were chosen for the multiple case studies. The results of this study show that non-family employees are participating on the small...
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entrepreneurship. We label this phenomenon the small firm effect and explore its origins. In particular, we identify four classes of … who are similarly drawn into entrepreneurship. Similarly, ability sorting plays a role: those who ultimately become … valuable in entrepreneurship. Evidence suggests that although those with the very least to lose do enter entrepreneurship with …
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