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Financial inclusion and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) growth in Uganda
Lakuma, Corti Eliab Paul; Marty, Robert; Muhumuza, Fred - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 8 (2019) 15, pp. 1-20
This paper draws on data from Uganda’s 2013 World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES), which comprises data on 762 firms across Uganda to assess the effects of the business environment, with particular interest on the impact of finance on firm growth by focusing on differences across firm size....
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Financial inclusion and the growth of small medium enterprises in Uganda : empirical evidence from selected districts in Lango sub-region
Eton, Marus; Mwosi, Fabian; Okello-Obura, Constant; … - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 10 (2021), pp. 1-23
The growth and failure of small and medium enterprises has been a topic of discussions world over among policymakers and researchers. This study was guided by the following objectives: to examine the contributions of small medium enterprises (SMEs), to determine the challenges affecting small...
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Financial inclusion and development in the least developed countries in Asia and Africa
Cicchiello, Antonella Francesca; Kazemikhasragh, Amirreza; … - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 10 (2021), pp. 1-13
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the financial inclusion index and development variables in the least developed countries in Asia and Africa by using annual data of 42 countries for the period 2000-2019. The pooled panel regression and panel data analysis...
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Financial inclusion also leads to social inclusion : myth or reality? : evidences from self-help groups led microfinance of Assam
Maity, Shrabanti - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 12 (2023), pp. 1-22
Microfinance is globally trusted for corroborating the upliftment of the rural vulnerable poor sections. It is looked upon as a means of credit-based poverty alleviation through financial inclusion. India also witnesses the same. In India, the self-help group bank linkage programme (SHG-BLP) is...
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Female unemployment, mobile money innovations and doing business by females
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 12 (2023), pp. 1-26
The purpose of this study is to complement extant literature by examining how mobile money innovations can moderate the unfavorable incidence of female unemployment on female doing of business in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004 to 2018. The empirical evidence is based on...
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Family businesses and the gender of entrepreneurship
Lingas, Kyriakos - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-7
Background: Economy, business, and entrepreneurship are related to the world of men. Home, nurturing, and the family … belong to women's world, so the story goes. On the other hand, family entrepreneurship and its outcome, the family business … other economic and entrepreneurial activities, the field of family entrepreneurship has been only recently addressed by …
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Obsessed maniacs and clairvoyant oracles : empirically validated patterns of entrepreneurial behavior
Carayannis, Elias G.; Stewart, McDonald R. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-24
Diverse and complex challenges in new venture formation demand rare and exceptional entrepreneurial acumen, particularly in technology-driven environments where disrupted markets amplify the factors and magnitude of uncertainty and risk. The successful technology entrepreneur (term of art for...
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Dystechnia : a model of technology deficiency and implications for entrepreneurial opportunity
Stewart, McDonald R.; Carayannis, Elias G. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-36
-order ignorance implies entrepreneurial opportunity. Entrepreneurship is the recognition and exploitation of economic potential by … ; entrepreneurship ; evolutionary economics ; innovation ; robust competitiveness ; sustainable entrepreneurship ; technology …
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From market failures to market opportunities : managing innovation under asymmetric information
Barbaroux, Pierre - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 3 (2014), pp. 1-15
This article presents a review of the literature that focuses on the role played by information asymmetry in the management of innovation. Results are organised in two categories. On the one hand, information asymmetry is considered as a major source of market failures because it affects the...
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Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process : from microcredit to microfinance
Ashta, Arvind; Couchoro, Mawuli; Musa, Abu Saleh - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 3 (2014), pp. 1-23
, through its wide range of innovatively distributed products, can be a key factor to foster entrepreneurship. …
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