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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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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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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 …
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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 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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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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Technology Transfer and Economic Growth in Sub-Sahara African Countries : Lessons from East Asia
Agola, Nathaniel O. - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
-- Technology Transfer for Economic Growth in Africa – Why it Matters -- Sub-Sahara African Countries’ Attractiveness to Technology …
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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur : a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship
Block, Jörn; Fisch, Christian; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016
Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively … that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical … innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed. …
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Seeing the world with different eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian D. - 2008 - Revised version (v2.0)
Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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