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The aim of this paper is to analyze how female migrants fare in the labor market in Spain, a country that has … experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment … migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double negative disadvantage …
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The present paper aims to acquaint concisely about the main issues surrounding the theme "immigration" founded in the … question of assessing on the one hand the costs and on the other hand the benefits of immigration, through the exploitation of … acquaintance is ensured through proceeding to the evaluation and comparison between costs and benefits – by presenting new …
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The present paper aims to acquaint concisely about the principal concerns surrounding the theme immigration, founded in … the portrait of immigrants – by focusing on three main developed countries of immigration: the United Kingdom, Spain and … France – and the reasons explaining the immigration phenomenon. Second, (comprising the second part of the corpus), an …
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Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …
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The decentralization of organizational decision authority has been shown to be complementary to Information Technology (IT) in prior research. We draw from the information processing view of organizations, the IT and de/centralization debate, and organizational learning theory to argue that IT...
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Sixty years after the establishment of the first science park at Stanford University, Science and Technology Parks (STPs) have reached a worldwide diffusion. Many papers have discussed parks’ role in promoting new technology-based firms (NTBFs) and their impacts on firms’ performances, often...
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Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee. As a result, capitalization on earlier investment declines and accumulation of knowledge stagnates. This situation calls for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic...
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid...
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The internationalization of R&D network is a recent phenomenon. In this knowledge based environment, the driving forces for this phenomenon are digitization, the internet, and high-speed data networks that are keys to address many of the operational issues from design to logistics and...
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In the competitive market, virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enable organizations to pool the talents and expertise of employees and non-employees by eliminating time...
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