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The gendering of entrepreneurship context
Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida G.; De Bruin, Anne - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256276
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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473187
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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162904
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Catching up or lagging behind? : the long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019
From an active labor market policy perspective, start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are very effective in improving long-term labor market outcomes for participants. From a business perspective, however, the assessment of these public programs is less clear since they might attract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126136
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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms’ sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156958
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The Gendering of Entrepreneurship Context
Welter, Friederike - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029289
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How human capital affects self-employment among the science and technology labor force
Wiklund, Johan; Delmar, Frédéric; Hellerstedt, Karin - In: Entrepreneurship and the creation of small firms : …, (pp. 91-114). 2010
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Learning from Swedish entrepreneurship research
Holmquist, Carin; Wiklund, Johan - In: Entrepreneurship and the creation of small firms : …, (pp. 197-204). 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003954992
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Entrepreneurship and the creation of small firms : empirical studies of new ventures
Holmquist, Carin (contributor); Wiklund, Johan (contributor) - 2010
This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation. Using a variety of data sources, methods and theories, the authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context for this research is Sweden- a small open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851775
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Entrepreneurship and the creation of small firms : empirical studies of new ventures
Holmquist, Carin (ed.); Wiklund, Johan (contributor) - 2010
"Entrepreneurship research often presupposes similarities between national contexts despite evidence of extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013551113