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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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This paper presents results from a field experiment designed to test whether savings constraints prevent the self-employed from increasing the size of their businesses. We opened interest-free savings accounts in a local village bank in rural Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily...
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This paper presents results from a field experiment designed to test whether savings constraints prevent the self-employed from increasing the size of their businesses. We opened interest-free savings accounts in a local village bank in rural Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288156
in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and … is the antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model. We show that Mittelstand is more than a small and medium … the Mittelstand is an excellent example of everyday entrepreneurship and a vibrant segment of economy which is also …
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companies has however relied on data for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), taking measurable proxies (such as the total … entrepreneurship literature by challenging this false equation of Mittelstand and SMEs. We investigate different approaches to analyze …
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The paper reviews the current discussion on institutional change and institutional entrepreneurship. Specifically, it … and unintentionally. We find that the concept of institutional entrepreneurship does not provide an adequate conceptual … institutional entrepreneurship. …
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This paper introduces a comprehensive database of informal economic activity. The database focuses on measures that have strong cross-country and over time coverage: it includes both model-based and survey-based measures of informality and covers more than 160 economies for the period 1990-2018....
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We study the degree of synchronization between formal- and informal-economy business cycles. Using a comprehensive database of informal activity that covers a wide range of informality measures from almost 160 countries over the 1990-2018 period, we report two major results. First, fluctuations...
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This paper responds to Welter's (2011) call to pay more attention to the diversity of entrepreneurship in theorizing … entrepreneurship places". Our discussion illustrates some useful cues our research might draw on to challenge and improve theoretical … understanding of place in entrepreneurship. …
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