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“The Principles of Scientific Management” by Frederick Taylor is among the first attempts to set up a coherent set of principles and rules in the practice of management. While Taylor seems to have gone too far by claiming that the status of his statements is scientific, we argue that he made...
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Provides an overview of the situation of women micro and small entrepreneurs against a back drop of the four countries' economic conditions and the gender based socio-cultural, legal and political systems in place in these countries.
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management of entrepreneurship lies in increasing labor income entrepreneurs. The efficient ways are directed towards: skills …
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
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We experimentally investigate gender- and occupation-specific differences in market entry behavior and test whether female entrepreneurs are more willing to take strategic risk and engage in competition than other women. To facilitate strategic thinking, we induce asymmetric gain and loss...
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In recent years, several randomized controlled experiments as well as experiments that are not randomized have been conducted to assess the impacts of management training intervention on the productivity and other aspects of business performance of firms. Yet the role played by management...
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Diversity is increasingly considered as a motive for entrepreneurship. In our article, we set the hypothesis that … one about the link between culture, ethnicity and entrepreneurship and the other one about gender and entrepreneurship. We … also discuss the last study led by OECD (2012) on gender entrepreneurship. Our article reveals that culture and ethnicity …
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Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …
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start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … in the market; and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage work … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …
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This paper presents the main rapid growth factors, as encountered in literature and discusses the importance and contribution of these factors in achieving the rapid growth, respectively if this growth phenomenon may be achieved in the absence of the aforesaid factors. The paper examines the...
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