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Improving entrepreneurs' digital skills and firms' digital competencies through business apps training : a study of small firms
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … revealed that business apps training was positively associated with entrepreneurs' attitudes toward technology, willingness to …, the business apps training was positively associated with migrant entrepreneurs' integration into Greek society. Given the …
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Digital entrepreneurship research: a concise introduction
Naudé, Wim; Liebregts, Werner - 2020
digital economy, digital entrepreneurs pursue opportunities to produce and trade in digital artifacts on digital artifact …
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Destructive digital entrepreneurship
Naudé, Wim - 2023
This paper provides a selective overview of destructive digital entrepreneurship. The concept is defined and elaborated in the context of the digital revolution post World War II. It is pointed out that the digital revolution was captured by the corporate sector: the incentives for unproductive...
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Artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship
Fossen, Frank M.; McLemore, Trevor; Sorgner, Alina - 2024
data from the German Socio-economic Panel revealing that entrepreneurs, particularly those with employees, are aware of and …
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Reducing the gender digital divide amongst immigrant entrepreneurs
Drydakis, Nick - 2024
). The current study presents the outcomes of a business apps training intervention, targeting immigrant entrepreneurs … to improve entrepreneurs' internet/digital skills and firms' digital competencies, whilst also boosting empowerment and … entrepreneurs' digital skills requires intersectional approaches that address a vector of socio-economic and cultural barriers …
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010
barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs to create small businesses, these programs are designed to alleviate …
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses
Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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Microentrepreneurship in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2020
This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...
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