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The relationship between formal microfinance institutions and the poor in Beira-Mozambique.
Vilanculo, Martins dos Santos - 2008
ABSTRACTThis paper examines the relationship between microfinance institutions and the poor inBeira-Mozambique and the … entrepreneurship among the target group.The study concludes that the institutions and the target group, especially active clients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447769
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Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition and development, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476783
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477143
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Assisting entrepreneurs : challenges facing U.S. microcredit programs into the 21st century
Beighle, James D. - 1999
Microcredit programs are widely employed as poverty elimination and economic development tools by a growing number of U.S. nonprofit organizations. This paper is an examination of U.S. microcredit programs' organizational operations, their strengths and weaknesses, and their ability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449467
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Growing the microcredit industry in the United States : barriers to growth and strategies for success
Rogers, Stephen - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to examine the growth of a new industry - the microcredit industry. It is an interesting story because it is an important new area in the field of economic development. Microcredit itself has existed for centuries. Microcredit is the business of making small loans to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449582
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The importance of gestation process dynamics
Gordon, Scott R. - 2010
entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural … nascent entrepreneurship we conduct an empirical study of ventures start-ups. Data is drawn from a screened random sample of … gestation process antecedents, we examine specific human capital measured as successful prior experience in entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437616
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Leaving Corporate Boundaries: Leveraging Mentors in Career Transitions to Entrepreneurship
Terjesen, Siri A.; Sullivan, Sherry - 2007
This study explores the under-researched subject of the role of mentoring within and outside of organizational boundaries, as individuals make the transition from corporate careers to starting their own businesses. Answering calls for more qualitative, inductive research on entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437619
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Examining the black box between stimulating regions and individual entrepreneurship
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Brixy, Udo; … - 2011
engagement in nascent entrepreneurship). We further investigate pathways through which a favourable regional environment could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438103
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Is the sum more than the corporate entrepreneurship parts? the different effects of social capital on innovation, venturing, and renewal processes
Burgers, Henri; Jansen, Justin; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2009
Principal Topic Although corporate entrepreneurship is of vital importance for long-term firm survival and growth … (Zahra and Covin, 1995), researchers still struggle with understanding how to manage corporate entrepreneurship activities …. Corporate entrepreneurship consists of three parts: innovation, venturing, and renewal processes (Guth and Ginsberg, 1990 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438250
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Policy environments and institutional factors that shape the role of technology in entrepreneurial culture: an exploratory study in Mexico and Canada
Arechavala Vargas, Ricardo; Holbrook, J. Adam; Díaz … - 2008
Entrepreneurship is, by necessity, a function of opportunities and constraints that a given environment presents … we present a comparative study of entrepreneurship in Mexico and Canada, based on the study of the role of technology and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475855