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existing theoretical literature on innovation and entrepreneurship. It summarizes some of the main findings of the effect of … various means of protecting intellectual property on the innovation incentives and the level of entrepreneurship activity. A …
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Critics of the trait approach to the study of entrepreneurship have called for adaptation of theory from other … entrepreneurial career preference is developed. Social Learning Theory was used to investigate the link between a parent role model …
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Most policy regarding tertiary training choice is based on the presumption that human capital theory is the most … behavioural intentions and Kelly’s personal construct theory both provide useful predictors of the different choice possibilities … better than by chance or by human capital theory. This is even when the participants have very similar demographic …
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In this dissertation, I examine individual decisions in occupational choice, labor supply, and health care utilization. Occupational choice decisions of female college graduates on whether to teach or not are analyzed to understand the role of fertility and relative wages using a panel...
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We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies capture risk loving behaviour (expenditure on gambling, smoking and alcohol)...
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Studies on globalisation suggest that a factor in the growth of nonstandard employment in developed economies has been the growing capacity of multinational corporations to arbitrage wage differentials across countries. This analysis applies in particular to industries subject to direct import...
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The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no … the broad margins ofentrepreneurship but also the fluent boarders between entrepreneurship and the informal sector on … particular issue of margins of entrepreneurship not only within theconventional scope of entrepreneurship discussion but within …
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three SOEs. Findings reveal that those aspects typically associated with entrepreneurship, such as innovation, risk …
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In July 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey in the Kingdom of …
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thinking about entrepreneurship as the commercialisation component of Australia’s innovation system. The paper explores the … gaps in the support available for the entrepreneurship phase involving the act of new entry. This gap is covered by … servants and politicians about the nature and operation of entrepreneurship. …
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