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city new ventures that can create employment, build an entrepreneurship culture, and develop local talent. It also focus on …
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In this work it was intended to carry through an analysis of the European venture capital market in the last eight years. Also it was done a summary of the venture capital industry history, carrying through a comparison between U.S.A. and Europe. In the European venture capital market analysis...
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capital. Other strands of literature stress that the supply of entrepreneurship is a fundamental ingredient of economic growth … opportunity driven entrepreneurship. For what regards institutional variables, three interesting and somehow non conventional … results emerge from the analysis. First, low start-up cost are particular favorable for necessity driven entrepreneurship but …
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the interaction effects of a low uncertainty avoidance culture, predict opportunity exploitation. Our study’s findings are …
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a trading Diaspora in general vis-à-vis local entrepreneurs, regardless of the background national culture in which it …
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Drawing a sample of 135 successful African immigrant-owned businesses, this paper sets out to investigate how their owners acquired the necessary capital for start-up and growth thereafter. The paper was designed within the quantitative and qualitative research paradigms, in which a...
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Using case study analysis based on in-depth interviews we aim to extend the entrepreneurship research in transition … context in Poland. Entrepreneurship models build in America and Western Europe do not picture the specifics of … entrepreneurship in transition economies. The author reviews concepts and theses on entrepreneurship in this context and argues that …
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The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 changed the landscape of financing a business, affecting all projects that are looking for growth based on access to capital. Non-bank finance and new forms of equity access started to emerge not only for attractive born-global start-ups but also for...
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This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...
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If we are to understand how entrepreneurial intentions evolve, we must embrace theories reflecting the inherent dynamics of human decision making. While the dominant model of entrepreneurial intentions remains invaluable, capturing the dynamics is necessary to advance our understanding of how...
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