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Technological Readiness in the Middle East and North Africa – Implications for Egypt

Brach, Juliane - 2010

Innovation is widely recognized as a key driver of sustainable economic development. Governments, international organizations, donors and investors are increasingly interested in evaluating the technological capabilities and innovative capacities in developing countries, but often lack...

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The growth and decline of small firms in developing countries

Coad, Alex; Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2008

Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries. The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairly representative of the structure of small business in...

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Tackling enterprises operating in the informal sector in developing and transition economies: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal policy approach

Williams, Colin C. - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-17

Over the past decade or so, there has been widespread recognition that a large and growing proportion of the global workforce is employed in informal sector enterprises. To explain this, neo-liberals contend that enterprises operate in the informal sector due to high taxes, public sector...

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Entrepreneurial activity and economic growth: A multi-country analysis

Almodóvar-González, Manuel; Fernández-Portillo, Antonio - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 26 (2020) 1, pp. 9-17

entrepreneurial spirit and economic growth. The results enable to know the impact of a specific factor on entrepreneurship and … of the country in question. On the other hand, less developed countries should not be based on generic entrepreneurship …

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The impacts of entrepreneurial orientation on the profitability growth of construction firms in Tanzania

Okangi, Fred Phanuel; Danish, Rizwan Qaisar - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 9 (2019) 14, pp. 1-23

Literature considers entrepreneurship as an important catalyst in the process of improving firm performance and growth … a negative significant effect. This study contributes to the field of entrepreneurship in developing countries and …

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The impact of entrepreneurship on economic, social and environmental welfare and its determinants: a systematic review

Neumann, Thomas - In: Management Review Quarterly 71 (2020) 3, pp. 553-584

This paper presents a systematic review of (a) the impact of entrepreneurship on economic, social and environmental … welfare and (b) the factors determining this impact. Research over the past 25 years shows that entrepreneurship is one cause … of macroeconomic development, but that the relationship between entrepreneurship and welfare is very complex. The …

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Are greener start-ups of superior quality? The impact of environmental orientation on innovativeness, growth orientation, and international orientation

Neumann, Thomas - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 12 (2023) 1, pp. 1-24

This paper merges the literature on green and high-quality entrepreneurship by introducing environmental orientation as …, and international orientation. Entrepreneurship literature argues that only high-quality start-ups contribute to … orientation. Investigation using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data on 9650 entrepreneurs from 51 countries revealed that start …

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