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Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Guilia; Auriol, … - 2017

Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...

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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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Supporting women entrepreneurs in Tunisia

Drine, Imed; Grach, Mouna - 2010

male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information … suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support …

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Impact of leadership role perspective on conflict resolution styles : a study on small and medium sized entrepreneurs of Karnataka State in India

Karadakal, Neetha; Goud, Nagalingappa; Thomas, Princy - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 5 (2015) 4, pp. 1-20

Perceptual studies are important because of the influence of perception on individual behavior. The behavior of an individual is known to be influenced by activation of traits like stereotypes; behavior of leaders and entrepreneurs is no exception. The leadership role perspectives of...

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Antecedents of perceived entrepreneurial ability in Catalonia : the individual and the entrepreneurial context

Bayon, Manoj Chandra; Vaillant, Yancy; Lafuente, Esteban - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 5 (2015) 3, pp. 1-19

most important drivers of nascent entrepreneurship in an economy. Implications: The main implication of our study is that …

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Savings, entrepreneurial trait and self-employment: evidence from selected Ghanaian Universities

Peprah, James Atta; Afoakwah, Clifford; Koomson, Isaac - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 5 (2015) 1, pp. 1-17

Youth unemployment is a major setback to sustainable growth. In recent times, Ghana has experienced a downward trend in youth employment in spite of several attempts made by the government to control the unemployment situation. This paper explores savings behaviour, entrepreneurial trait and the...

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The deployment and internationalization speed of e-business in the digital entrepreneurship era

Ziyae, Babak; Sajadi, Seyed; Mobaraki, Mohammad - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 4 (2014), pp. 1-11

Digital Entrepreneurship has revolutionized worldwide businesses. Worked by the fast development of computer knowledge …

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Business failure factors in Iranian SMEs : do successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs have different viewpoints?

Arasti, Zahra; Zandi, Fahimeh; Bahmani, Neda - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 4 (2014), pp. 1-14

requirements for growth, creativity as well as entrepreneurship in societies is to study their failure process. The purpose of this …

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The relationship between women entrepreneurship and gender equality

Sarfaraz, Leyla; Faghih, Nezameddin; Asadi Majd, Armaghan - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 2 (2014), pp. 1-11

The degree at which entrepreneurship affects the economy depends on numerous factors, including the quality, gender … composition, and type of entrepreneurial activity. Gender equality and female entrepreneurship are key factors in economic … development. In order to study the relationship between gender equality and the rate of female entrepreneurship, this paper …

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Investigating the effect of entrepreneurial competencies on business performance among early stage entrepreneurs Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM 2010 survey data)

Barazandeh, Mahtab; Parvizian, Kourosh; Alizadeh, Mehdi; … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 5 (2015) 18, pp. 1-12

entrepreneurs is a better measure than national attitude toward entrepreneurship for the construct "entrepreneurial social norms …

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