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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...
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Entrepreneurial activity and regional development: an introduction to this special issue
Guerrero, Maribel; Peña-Legazkue, Peña-Legazkue , Iñaki - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 26, pp. 05-15
have analyzed the complicated endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth, but these studies have …
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Social responsibility of the state and business as a factor of competitiveness and economic growth
Fylyppova Iryna H.; Sumtsov Viktor H. - In: The Problems of Economy (2014) 1, pp. 163-172
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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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 …
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PROSPECTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO THE CHALLENGE OF JOB CREATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
MAHADEA, DARMA - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 17 (2012) 04, pp. 1250020-1
Entrepreneurship is critical to job creation and economic growth. Unemployment in South Africa is presently at about 25 … challenge. Entrepreneurship, through the creation of new ventures and expansion of business firms, can make a difference to … the entrepreneurial environmental conditions in South Africa and then examines how entrepreneurship can make a difference …
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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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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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Credit Constraints, Organizational Choice, and Returns to Capital: Evidence from a Rural Industrial Cluster in China
Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Traditional economic theory posits that a well functioning capital market is a necessary condition for industrialization and economic growth. However, in reality it is observed that micro and small enterprises are ubiquitous because entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with...
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Entrepreneurship in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: the determinants and consequences for the municipal development
Canever, Mario Duarte; Carraro, André; Kohls, Volnei Krause - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 48 (2010) 1
This paper is about the links between entrepreneurship determinants, entrepreneurship rate and entrepreneurship … consequences. A model relating demographic, cultural, economical and institutional antecedents to entrepreneurship rate and to … view that institutional, economical and demographic variables shape entrepreneurship rate. Moreover support was also found …
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