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Joining the supply chain: A firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
Asian economies. Meanwhile, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make a small contribution to supply chain activity … also influence jo ining supply chains. The paper suggests that governments can facilit ate SMEs joining supply chains … through a market-oriented strategy for SMEs, modern physical infrastructure, streamlined bureaucratic procedures and good …
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Innovation and imitation in a model of North-South trade
Borota, Teodora - 2010
Recent evidence on world trade patterns reveals North-South specialization across products of the same industries and product groups but different quality, which is not matched by the predictions of traditional and new trade theory. This paper analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous...
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A conversation with 590 nascent entrepreneurs
Campbell, Jeffrey R.; De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2007
This paper summarizes interviews from 1998 with 590 individuals trying to create a business centered around five questions: 'Who are you?', 'What are you trying to accomplish?', 'What have you and others put into the business?', 'What have you accomplished?', 'What remains to be done?' There is...
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Family-related employment interruptions and self-employment of women: Does policy matter?
Suprinovič, Olga; Schneck, Stefan; Kay, Rosemarie - 2015
This paper analyzes how statutory entitlements to maternity or parental leave affect female entry into self-employment after childbirth. For our estimations we use comprehensive panel data for German adults born between 1944 and 1989. We find that utilization of statutory parental leave...
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Zum Einfluss des Geschlechts des Übergebers auf die Wahl des familieninternen Nachfolgers: Eine theoretische und empirische Analyse in deutschen Familienunternehmen
Schlömer-Laufen, Nadine; Kay, Rosemarie - 2013
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Determinanten der Entscheidung, einen Sohn oder eine Tochter zum familieninternen Nachfolger zu bestimmen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf dem Geschlecht des Übergebers. Nationale wie internationale Forschungsarbeiten deuten darauf hin, dass...
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The gendering of entrepreneurship context
Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida; De Bruin, Anne - 2014
The paper builds on the understanding of context as suggested by Welter (2011) who introduced different dimensions of context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the...
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"It takes three to tango": Brain, cognition and entrepreneurial enhancement
Pérez-Centeno, Víctor - 2017
In the global clash for unveiling the 'innermost secrets' of the brain, the field of neuroscience is the most fitting contender. Neuroscience is not quite ready to win the war for now, but it is assuredly equipped to win some battles. Notwithstanding that entrepreneurship is fundamentally a...
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The German Mittelstand: Antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model?
Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike - 2019
Whilst internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to emulate it, the current debate in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and non-innovative - in short: as a hindrance to Germany's...
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Emotions and entrepreneurship education: State of the art and future research agenda
Pérez, Víctor Centeno; Kansikas, Juha - 2019
Entrepreneurship education holds the potential to mitigate unemployment and boost prosperity, yet emotions, one of its sources of strength, remain underutilized. There is a strong consensus that emotions are tightly linked to learning processes, and vice versa. Across entrepreneurship education,...
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Brain-driven entrepreneurship research: Expanded review and research agenda towards entrepreneurial enhancement
Pérez-Centeno, Victor - 2018
The advent of significant advances in neuroscience has produced the capacity to examine the human brain at a profound level, yet the academic and practical value of existing evidence based on neuroscience techniques and methods within the field of entrepreneurship remains unexplored. To address...
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