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While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the …
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This paper positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based upon household surveys. The originality of the present study is that it investigates for the first time the likely predominant route by which...
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We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into … entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the …
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Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behaviour
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Building on a Lewis-type model of structural change and entrepreneurship we show how a global economic crisis …
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This policy brief provides some fresh perspectives on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development, and …”, which aimed to understand whether and how entrepreneurship matters for development, how it could derail development, how … entrepreneurs function in high growth as well as in conflict environments, and how female entrepreneurship differs across countries …
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The current research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of … unproductive entrepreneurship has been examined, destructive entrepreneurship has been largely ignored. We build from existing … theory and define destructive entrepreneurship as wealth-destroying. We propose three assumptions to develop a model of …
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