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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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paper we outline some considerations for such an industrial policy where the entrepreneur.state nexus is paramount. Moreover …, we argue that such an industrial policy will need to take into consideration that the entrepreneur.state nexus is …
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Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …
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these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses …
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This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China using household data for 1995 and 2002. We seek to understand the determinants of belonging to each of the three elite categories. We find that education and military experience...
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The tourism industry is the leading segment of the services industries in small island developing states (SIDS). This … paper therefore seeks primarily to investigate both the nature and determinants of tourism competitiveness in SIDS. Judging … from the various calculated indices of tourism competitiveness, the competitive position of tourism in SIDS is a major …
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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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