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This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...
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entrepreneurship is an important vehicle for knowledge flows and economic growth. The empirical results indicate that an increase in … innovative start-up activity is more effective than an increase in general entrepreneurship for economic growth. …
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According to rich and growing empirical literature, one of the main deficiencies of Hungarian smes is their low growth potential. Survey results underline the strong influence of cultural factors including behavioral features rooted in the socialist era among the main explanatory factors of...
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investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international … entrepreneurship in China is significant: 65 per cent of the exporting firms start export operations within three years. Foreign …
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technological change and the growing world competition: entrepreneurship - meant as the individual capacity to take risk, to produce …’ entrepreneurship and learning capability. However strategic alliances show a high degree of failure, thus posing the need to … paper is to investigate: a) the linkage between national culture and entrepreneurship, b) how culture affects firms …
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creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of the … way for future economic growth. This entrepreneurship-philanthropy nexus has not been fully explored by either economists …
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
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networks are significant in entrepreneurship, while women and older workers are less likely to become self-employed unless they …
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Drawing on Social network theory, this article argues for enhancing effects of social capital of entrepreneurs on investment selection decisions of venture capitalists (to invest versus not to invest), and main effects of social capital on investment process decisions such as venture valuation,...
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