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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013
entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787342
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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020
the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162904
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Entrepreneurship: cause or consequence of financial optimism?
Dawson, Christopher; De Meza, David E.; Henley, Andrew; … - 2012
psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621866
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Firm size and innovation in the service sector
Audretsch, David B.; Hafenstein, Marian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018
A rich literature links knowledge inputs with innovative outputs. However, most of what is known is restricted to manufacturing. This paper analyzes whether the three aspects involving innovative activity - R&D; innovative output; and productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958696
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Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Yogo, Urbain Thierry - 2020
an impact evaluation-based approach on firm-level data from 42 African countries, we show that SMEs with access to formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293404