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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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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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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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Burgeoning Chinese postpartum nursing enterprises and birth tourism - the perspective from transaction cost entrepreneurship
Yan, Ho-Don; Chen, Chyong Ling Judy - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 502-518
The one-month confinement (or doing the month, DM) for post-partum women is a tradition that has been practiced for millennia in Chinese society. Tedious preparations and numerous procedures of DM incur high transaction costs when purchasing the service from the market. To assure the practice of...
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Credit Constraints, Job Mobility, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Property Reform in China
Wang, Shing-Yi - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 2, pp. 532-551
entrepreneurship. I find an increase in self-employment following a reform in urban China that allowed state employees who were renting … mechanisms that might explain how the reform increased entrepreneurship. I find evidence that the reform reduced labor mobility …
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Back to the failure: An analytic narrative of the De Lorean debacle
Brownlow, Graham - Centre for Economic History, Management School - 2014
There has been a recent identification of a need for a New Business History. This discussion connects with the analytic narrative approach. By following this approach, the study of business history provides important implications for the conduct and institutional design of contemporary...
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Angel investors’ selection criteria: A comparative institutional perspective
Ding, Zhujun; Sun, Sunny; Au, Kevin - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 31 (2014) 3, pp. 705-731
Despite the important role of angel investors as critical financial providers for new ventures, little is known regarding how the institutions present in very different institutional environments impact their investment decisions. While angel investors might be expected to make decisions based...
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ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТЬ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ СУБЪЕКТОВ ПРЕДПРИНИМАТЕЛЬСТВА В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ УСЛОВИЯХ ХОЗЯЙСТВОВАНИЯ...
ДМИТРИЕВНА, БЕДРИНЕЦ МИРОСЛАВА - In: Бизнес Информ (2013) 3, pp. 183-190
Исследовано понятия «предприятие» и «эффективность хозяйственной деятельности предприятия». Сформировано собственное определение эффективности предприятия,...
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