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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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Evolutionary Governance Theory : Theory and Applications
Beunen, Raoul - 2015
This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations. As a novel theory of governance, EGT understands governance as radically evolutionary, which implies that all elements of governance...
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Darwin meets Business : Evolutionäre und bionische Lösungen für die Wirtschaft
Otto, Klaus-Stephan - 2011
Ökonomie und Natur haben mehr gemein, als man auf den ersten Blick vermuten möchte: In beiden Systemen spielen Prinzipien wie Wettbewerb, Organisation, Kooperation, Kundenansprache und Ressourcenmanagement gleichermaßen eine bedeutende Rolle. Die Beiträge in dem Buch zeigen in anschaulicher...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653973
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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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LEAD: Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the African Diaspora
Lituchy, Terri R. - 2017
This book considers the new business environment of modern-day Africa, addressing how management styles must adapt to … realities that managers must consider in order to be successful in the new business environment of modern Africa. Building on … their Leadership Effectiveness in Africa and the African Diaspora (LEAD) research project, the authors provide an empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396350
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397519
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Wage inequality in Africa
Johnson-Lans, Shirley (ed.) - 2017
This Palgrave Pivot features original research studies of wage inequality in African countries including South Africa …1. Introduction -- 2. Foreign Direct Investment and Racial Wage Inequality: Evidence from South Africa -- 3. The Urban … Wage Premium in Africa -- 4. Gender-Based Wage Differentials and Employment in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1995-2004 …
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