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Risk attitudes and profits among small enterprises in Nigeria

Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...

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Women's entrepreneurship in Pomerania in light of available research

Wasilczuk, Julita E. - 2017

Background. Despite the fact that research on women's entrepreneurship has been conducted for many years, still many … present text. Methods. The article reports the state of art in the women entrepreneurship research as well as the research …

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Business survival and success of young small business owners

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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Business survival and success of young small business owners : an empirical analysis

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance

Praag, Mirjam van; Wit, Gerrit de; Bosma, Niels - 2004

by lack of data. The key contribution of this article is that the authors are able—due to their comprehensive data set …

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Why less? : the gendered aspects of small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) ownership under economic transition

Aidis, Ruta - 2002

This paper explores the gendered influence on SME development under economic transition in Lithuania. Previous studies have shown that male and female business owners are more different than similar in terms of personal and business characteristics (Brush 1992). An analysis of 332 SME owners in...

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Why don't we see more small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Lithuania?

Aidis, Ruta - 2002

This paper identifies the specific external barriers to SME development in Lithuania. An analysis of 332 SME owners reveals that formal barriers (taxes, frequent changes to and ambiguity of tax policies) and environmental barriers (low purchasing power, lack of funds for business investment)...

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Small firms, entrepreneurship and economic growth

Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1995

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In search of ethnic entrepreneurship opportunities in the city : a comparative policy study

Delft, Hadewijch van; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999

initiatives based on self-reliance principles for ethnic groups. Against this background ethnic entrepreneurship has become a … emphasis on ethnic entrepreneurship seeks to exploit the economic potential and opportunities instead of focusing on the … problems minorities encounter when entering the labour market. In ethnic entrepreneurship, this potential can be utilised in a …

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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002

, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the empirical analysis of a rich Dutch longitudinal data set of firm …

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