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economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate …) constraints and develops a theoreticalframework that examines the main obstacles to entrepreneurship in Africa’s LDCs. The … economies, development of productive entrepreneurship cannot be left tomarkets alone. The policy analysis suggests that the …
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Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial locationas a micro-determinant of occupational …
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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 smallsamples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairlyrepresentative of the structure of small business in India....
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entrepreneurs and theirperceptions. Using individual-level data from 43 countries from the period 2002 to 2005, wefind that neither … of entrepreneurial activity in specific circumstances. There ishence scope for entrepreneurs, and policies supporting …
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Entrepreneurs out of necessity” identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey area sizeable group across …
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that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we …
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This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national … economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … extent to which high growth ambitions of entrepreneurs affect GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. Our results suggest …
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This study utilizes a human capital framework to explore whether business ownership experience is associated with the number of business opportunities identified, the number of identified opportunities that are pursued, and the nature of those opportunities...
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entrepreneurs? According to the logic of economic models of firm dynamics there is no reason to re-enter into entrepreneurship …Why should individuals that have exited their firm consider re-entering into entrepreneurship, i.e. become renascent …
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure...
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