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Institutions, networks and entrepreneurship development in Russia: an exploration
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - 2006
. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267935
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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282600
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293531
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Chinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal: Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban West Africa
Marfaing, Laurence; Thiel, Alena - 2011
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of greener pastures. This paper scrutinizes the empirical foundations of the increasingly hostile discourses of African traders regarding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293537
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Strategische Gruppen und Staatskapazität: Das Beispiel der Privatunternehmer in China
Heberer, Thomas - 2002
transformatorischen und strategischen Potenziale eingeht. Schließlich wird erörtert, in welcher Weise Unternehmer Staatskapazität … Kapazität beiträgt bzw. beitragen. Die Strategie der Unternehmer ist dabei interessengeleitet in dem Sinne, dass sie im … transformatorischen Potenzials der strategischen Gruppe(n) Unternehmer untersucht, ehe Rückschlüsse auf die Bedeutung des Agierens der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302297
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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011
entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286270
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Anatomy of cluster development in China: The case of health biotech clusters
Conlé, Marcus; Taube, Markus - 2010
Focussing on China's health biotech clusters the study explores the anatomy of interaction in as well as between various clusters. While the literature has identified the existence of a dense network of durable interactions among firms and between firms and academia at a particular location as...
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Regional determinants of new business formation in China: Prefecture-level evidence
Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015
entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400491
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model’s underlying mechanisms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584910
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Early international entrepreneurship in China: Extent and determinants
Naudé, Wim; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2009
investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international … entrepreneurship in China is significant: 65 per cent of the exporting firms start export operations within three years. Foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273455