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prospects of economic growth. The authors proceed from three quite evident assumptions: first - development of entrepreneurship … influence of social factors upon development of entrepreneurship, competitiveness and economic growth, the authors reveal …
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In this article, we propose a method to evaluate enterprise creation projects based on the study of profiles of entrepreneurs and project teams, as well as external factors. This method is based on the theories of human capital and social capital, notabl
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This paper analyzes the role played by two dimensions of entrepreneurs’ private social capital in the survival, growth and innovativeness of entrepreneurial service ventures: local size and preferential attachment degree. We build a bi-dimensional measure of social capital based on network...
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Despite early financial and organizational struggles, Chestnut Growers Inc. continues to play a central role in the industry and membership has increased. The purpose of this study is to explore this apparent paradox. We apply concepts from management and organizational theory to provide a...
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Compared to other ethnic groups, the black population of South Africa has a low participation rate in entrepreneurship …, merit further investigation with respect to the question of why there is a lack of black entrepreneurship in South Africa. …
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reality of entrepreneurship does not correspond to the atomized representation offered by the standard economic. Contrary to … to update the embeddedness of the entrepreneurship within networks of local relations, devices of the territorial … organization entitling and restricting the entrepreneurship. More precisely, the object of this article is to highlight the …
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successful clustering is the development of entrepreneurship, and the expected result (i.e. the purpose of cluster initiatives … potential of entrepreneurship’s development. It allows not only to substantiate the thesis about the dominant influence of … social factors but also to reveal the implicit contradiction between the social and economic aspects of entrepreneurship able …
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Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and...
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and exposes those, that are statistically significant. Since women remain an unexploited source of entrepreneurship …, establishing effective mechanisms for the promotion of female entrepreneurship should become an important issue in Slovenian … society. The paper concludes with policy and program suggestions for the support of female entrepreneurship. …
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