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ENTREPRENEURS IN THE DARK: THE IMPACT OF FRAGILE AND HYBRID GOVERNANCE ON LEBANESE ENTREPRENEURSHIP — A CASE-STUDY OF THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR

STEL, NORA - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350017-1

This article studies the relationship between governance and entrepreneurship, with a specific focus on Lebanon. In … entrepreneurship. The article's contributions lie in providing a deeper understanding of entrepreneurship in fragile states and showing … not merely that, but precisely how, governance matters for developmental entrepreneurship. …

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Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners

Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Roy; Wit, Gerrit de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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Who needs credit and who gets credit? Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances

Cole, Rebel A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this study, we use data from the Federal Reserve’s 1993, 1998 and 2003 Surveys of Small Business Finances to classify small businesses into four groups based upon their credit needs and to model the credit allocation process into a sequence of three steps. First, do firms need credit? We...

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Bank credit, trade credit or no credit: Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances

Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this study, we use data from the SSBFs to provide new information about the use of credit by small businesses in the U.S. More specifically, we first analyze firms that do and do not use credit; and then analyze why some firms use trade credit while others use bank credit. We find that one in...

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Entrepreneurship and Cities: Evidence from the Post-communist World

Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) - 2011

This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States … suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship, whereas the size of the state discourages it. Our results confirm a … U-shaped relationship between per-capita income and entrepreneurship. We also find that cities with higher concentration …

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The role of storyboards and scrapbooks in propagating entrepreneurial value in family business settings

Smith, Robert - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 3, pp. 260-271

The concepts of entrepreneurial narrative and biography are an emerging field of entrepreneurship research, but there … entrepreneurship and small business by highlighting the necessity of conducting empirical research into narrative forms such as …

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Microenterprise in Southeast Iowa: What Small Business Owners and Development Leaders Say

Burke, Sandra Charvat; Edelman, Mark - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010

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Microenterprise in Southeast Iowa: What Small Business Owners and Development Leaders Say

Burke, Sandra Charvat; Edelman, Mark - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010

Reports and summarizes issues important to entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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How do firms choose legal form of organization?

Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this study, we analyze the firm’s choice of legal form of organization (“LFO”). We find that only about one in three firms begins operations as a proprietorship, while almost as many begin as limited-liability companies and as corporations. Moreover, this distribution is remarkably...

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