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To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
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entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate … opportunity entrepreneurship. Hence, entrepreneurship may contribute towards countries' wellbeing in a broad sense, and countries …
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imposes a 'tax' on entrepreneurship by channelling entrepreneurial talent into lobbying and bribery; by reinforcing male and …
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Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
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understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …
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This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
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