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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in small enterprises in Viet Nam
Phạm, Thị Thu Hang - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Examines the economic significance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Viet Nam and assesses the policy and legal environment for MSEs in seven key areas: specific MSE policies; business laws and regulations; taxation; labour policy; trade; finance, credit and bankruptcy polices; and...
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Strategies for local economic development within the framework of sustainable human development : inputs to capacity building.
D, Nielsen Short; R, Lindenthal; AL, Vidal Alonso - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966369
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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in SMMEs in South Africa
Mollentz, Jennifer - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Examines the role of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in employment and the economy in South Africa and assesses the impact of the policy and legislative environment on these enterprises. Focuses on the number and quality of jobs being created in the sector.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966516
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The Role of Development Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Entrerprises in Managing Structural Changes
Beraha, Isidora; Stankovic, Ivana - In: Managing Structural Changes - Trends and Requirements
economic growth and development. Entrepreneurship is associated with job creation, innovation, welfare distribution, poverty … of entrepreneurship and its contribution to economic development of Serbia over the 2006-2010 period of time by using the … data. The methodology assesses the development of entrepreneurship through SMEE sector development and new firm formation …
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Network Progeny? Prefounding Social Ties and the Success of New Entrants
Roberts, Peter W.; Sterling, Adina D. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 7, pp. 1292-1304
Entrepreneurs that were employed by successful industry incumbents prior to founding tend to confer advantages on their new organizations. We propose and then demonstrate a similar "network progeny" effect rooted in the social relationships that form among entrepreneurs. Our analysis of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990546
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Sex Imbalance, Marriage Competition, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from rural China
Yuan, Yan; Rong, Zhao; Xu, Lihe - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
It is well acknowledged that the entrepreneurship is important to economic development. In this paper, we suggest a … gender-related determinant of entrepreneurship, local sex imbalance. Using a 2009 rural finance survey, we examine how this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881194
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UNDERLYING LOGICS THAT TRANSFORM SURVIVAL OR SUBSISTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUSTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
HE, XIAOHONG; CHI, RENYONG - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350018-1
survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884466
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Guanxi, performance and innovation in entrepreneurial service projects.
Arribas, Iván; Hernández, Penélope; Vila, Jose E. - Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar Comportament … - 2012
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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