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Entrepreneurship and Cities: Evidence from the Post-communist World

Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - 2011

This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States … suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship, whereas the size of the state discourages it. Our results confirm a … U-shaped relationship between per-capita income and entrepreneurship. We also find that cities with higher concentration …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2012

Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering 'breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Arbeitgeberverhalten in der Wirtschaftskrise: Ergebnisse empirischer Studien in den Monaten April und November 2009

Martin, Albert - 2010

Die Ergebnisse, über die im Folgenden berichtet wird, wurden im Rahmen von zwei Meinungsumfragen ermittelt. Die erste Umfrage erfolgte im April 2009 und befasste sich mit der Wettbewerbssituation von Arbeitnehmern, die zweite Umfrage richtete sich auf die Beurteilung der betrieblichen...

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Leasing by small enterprises

Neuberger, Doris; Räthke-Döppner, Solvig - 2012

Using internal data of a leasing company in Germany, we examine the determinants of the probability and use of leasing by small firms. We find that small and young firms are likely to be constrained on the leasing market but use leasing to increase their debt capacity. Beyond contract- and...

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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 …

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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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