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Applying a grounded-theory approach to analyzing the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, we attempt to explain … why New Zealand exhibits only a moderate level of economic development despite its high level of entrepreneurship. By … statistically analyzing why 34 other countries in the 2005 GEM dataset exhibit small deviations from the classical quadratic …
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The literature indicates that entrepreneurship and economic growth are closely and positively associated. For four … if it were to emulate other countries. We make use of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data set, including nascent … entrepreneurship rates for 45 countries over the 2000-2004 period as well as variables from standardised national statistics. The paper …
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Principal topic: Is habitual entrepreneurship different? Answering this is important to the field, however there is … entrepreneurship may be motivated by a desire for growth. While idea driven motivations might not delineate a distinction during … finding informs practitioners considering entrepreneurship for the first time. …
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entrepreneurship rates are affected by both soft (values, beliefs, and expectations) and hard (institutionalized norms and practices …) measures of culture. Using 2001 GEM data, we examine how institutional arrangements related to women’s employment (role of …
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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a multifaceted, multinational research programme now in its seventh year of … requisite for understanding entrepreneurship at the national and international levels of analysis, GEM has chosen to disguise … field operation, currently dominates the field of international entrepreneurship policy research but faces a crisis of …
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The market share of online purchasing is under two percent of total retailspending, which provides an indication that consumers have been slow to adoptonline purchasing. Previous research has shown that consumers perceive risksassociated with purchasing online and these perceptions are likely to...
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A highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza (AI) has been confirmed in 420human cases and has caused 257 deaths in the world starting from 2003. Usingface-to-face interviews, our data were collected by utilizing a stratified samplingscheme following the distribution of gender and age in...
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This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation concerning the approaches adopted by Italian companies in dealing with information security issues. Such results are compared to an ideal, integrated information system planning approach where information needs and risk management are...
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This paper provides an original theoretical framework to better understand the raise of private quality standards in agrifood chains. Reasons for the development and conditions for the effectivenessof private quality standards are identified, by investigating firms’ strategic behaviour and,...
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xv, 178 p. : ill. A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT HM1101 .D54 2007
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