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Female entrepreneurship is growing (OECD, 2000) with some estimates that this growth exceeds that of most economies …. This research answers calls for studies of gender and entrepreneurship (Brush, 1992; Bird & Brush, 2002), and the supply …, we provide an overview of the Italian national context and the historical role of women’s involvement in the labor force …
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study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … businesses (FCBs) in a series of distinct learning phases. Because that study's sample did not include many women, our present … context. Case study analysis of an international sample of women FCB leaders, using frameworks which avoid essentialist …
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.S. minority and women owned small businesses. Research in this area to date has addressed minorities and women in international … the acceptance of women in business in male dominated societies (Castillo, 2005; Hofstede, 1999; Gray and Finley, 2005 … a domestic focus (Dunning, 1993; Guisinger, 1985). The importance of this research is to help minority and women owned …
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The problem analyzed in this paper is low level of women career and their professional activity in organizations. Equal … the competitiveness of companies in the market and joint work of men and women become a success factor of business. The … objective of this paper is women career in Lithuanian companies. The statistic data prove that women are much behind the …
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Economic reform in the Central and Eastern European countries in the 1980s helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there are large differences among the transition...
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Unlike in developing countries, there tends to be no problem of access to water, electricity, and heating for private households in transition countries. However, transition countries have a considerable amount of low-income households, and the problem of affordability of these...
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For transition countries, the food industry sector is a key industry in terms of output andemployment shares. As a competitive sector that receives substantial foreign directinvestments (FDI), it plays an important role as an element in the process of integration in theEuropean and world market....
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At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies as a key component of implementing the goals of Agenda 21. Only partial progress was reported at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg, with uncertainty as to the effectiveness...
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The paper analyses the link between the autonomy according to business function and the performance of foreign subsidiaries in Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Estonia. The novelty of the paper is in the deeper investigation of the multidimensionality of autonomy. Using the method of...
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