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The impact of tourist spending in South Africa : spatial implications
Saayman, Andrea; Saayman, Melville; Naudé, Wim - In: South African journal of economic and management sciences 3 (2000) 3, pp. 369-386
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Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review
Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015
We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307496
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401794
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Peace, prosperity and pro-growth entrepreneurship
Naudé, Wim - 2007
Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of post-conflict states. In this paper I critically evaluate this view. I argue that entrepreneurship is a ubiquitous quality in post-conflict states but not necessarily always for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323518
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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013
The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329197
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Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984501
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Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?
Naudé, Wim - 2009
Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273479
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Entrepreneurship is not a binding constraint on growth and development in the poorest countries
Naudé, Wim - 2009
generated by scholars working in the field of entrepreneurship and management studies. In contrast, development economics …It is often claimed that entrepreneurship is indispensable for economic growth and development. These claims are mostly … scholars seem to be less concerned about entrepreneurship in the development process Who is right? I show that the arguments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273517
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Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016
Genocides and mass atrocities do not arise spontaneously, but tend to be meticulously sourced and managed. As such the concern in this paper is with the role of businesses in these processes, with a particular focus on the agency and decision making of entrepreneurs and managers. We critically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479261
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Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis?
Naudé, Wim - 2016
The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the gravest economic crisis in the last 50 years. Governments of European countries all habour high expectations that entrepreneurship will contribute towards ending the continent's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479335