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Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa : Context, Challenges, Cases
Achtenhagen, Leona (ed.); Brundin, Ethel (ed.) - 2016
personnel and environmental concerns. Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: Context, Challenges, Cases will be … -- Section IV: Commentary -- Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: A perspective and a short review …This book focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and SME management on the African continent by providing …
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Democratic capitalism and philanthropy in a global economy
Ács, Zoltán J.; Desai, Sameeksha - 2007
from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271772
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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, A. Roy - 2008
models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that - when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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Self-employment and unemployment in Spanish regions in the period 1979-2001
Golpe, Antonio A.; van Stel, André J. - 2007
This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...
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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria
Archibong, Belinda - 2016
Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more locally administered services, outcomes are stickier...
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Entrepreneurship in developing countries
Ács, Zoltán J.; Virgill, Nicola - 2009
examines the literature on entrepreneurship and economic development creating a framework for promoting development through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270609
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Entrepreneurial exit in real and imagined markets
Stam, Erik; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Zwan, Peter van der - 2009 - Version: October 2009
Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at all, or to give up these entrepreneurial intentions. This...
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The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams : evidence from a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants
Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Grilo, Isabel - 2007
Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350365
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The History of Business in Africa : Complex Discontinuity to Emerging Markets
Verhoef, Grietjie - 2017
Africa and Africas -- Networks of Exchange -- Business in New Markets Under New Masters -- Business in Independent … Africa -- Enter the Market: African Entrepreneurial Rebirth After 1980 -- Into the Global -- Conclusion: The Beginning of …
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