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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731970
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Adopting mobile money : evidence from an experiment in rural Africa
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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The adoption of ChatGPT
Humlum, Anders; Vestergaard, Emilie - 2024
We study the adoption of ChatGPT, the icon of Generative AI, using a large-scale survey experiment linked to comprehensive register data in Denmark. Surveying 100,000 workers from 11 exposed occupations, we document ChatGPT is pervasive: half of workers have used it, with younger, less...
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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016
better understand the complicity of business there is a need for a shift from diagnostic attention on how businesses are …
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Is the scholarly field of entrepreneurship at its end?
Naudé, Wim - 2024
break in the disruptiveness of entrepreneurship and business papers occurred around 1999. These results should not be taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512260
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Business disruptions due to social vulnerability and criminal activities in urban areas
Drydakis, Nick - 2024
This study investigates the relationship between social vulnerability, illegal activities, and location-based business …, gathered from areas with high levels of criminal activity, reflecting the experiences of business owners and managers in these … associated with increased location-based business disruptions. These disruptions manifest in assaults on employees and customers …
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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan
Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307885
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Resources on the stage : a firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309151
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Beer, wood, and welfare
Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - 2014
Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these, mostly female owned, small enterprises and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on...
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