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key differences between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs' perceptions and attitudes toward entrepreneurship. More than … in the UAE. Arab expatriates in particular, have higher entrepreneurship rates compared to other nationality groups … factors like income and employment have a significant influence in determining entrepreneurship activity in the UAE …
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This paper examines the nature of the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in the West Bank of the … evidence the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth; second, to explore the effect of two control variables on the … GDP and unemployment. The results show that contrary to a reservoir of research, entrepreneurship appeared to have no …
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Compared to other ethnic groups, the black population of South Africa has a low participation rate in entrepreneurship …, merit further investigation with respect to the question of why there is a lack of black entrepreneurship in South Africa. …
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This study examines the effect of rurality on early-stage necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship among women and … counties have a higher probability of engaging in opportunity entrepreneurship. This probability increases with college … also increases their probability of engaging in opportunity entrepreneurship. College education and being African American …
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What makes nascent entrepreneurs get their businesses up and running? We answer this by examining in a broad and unifying way: motivation and cognition, knowledge and experience and social support. We apply extensive multivariate analyses to a sample of 338 nascent entrepreneurs from the PSED...
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informal entrepreneurship. To do this, it first reviews four possible policy options, namely taking no action, eradicating … informal entrepreneurship, moving formal entrepreneurship into the informal economy, or transforming informal entrepreneurship … into formal entrepreneurship. Revealing that transforming informal entrepreneurship into formal entrepreneurship is not …
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In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
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In this paper, we compare the intentionality of students in graduate business programs in the United States and China toward becoming entrepreneurs. We utilize Amabile's Work Preference Inventory (WPI) to examine the motivational dimension of entrepreneurial intentionality and the Theory of...
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Unlike large firms with management teams, small businesses are usually run by one key person, the owner-entrepreneur, who bears almost all of the risks and makes most of the decisions related to the business. Because the owner-entrepreneur also embodies most of the firm-specific knowledge...
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