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Creative industries have recently gained attention from economists and policy makers as they are said to contribute in a significant way to the economic and technological development of knowledge societies. In Romania there has not been too much talk about the way in which these industries are...
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introduced to help investigate what can be learnt about musicians’ understanding of entrepreneurship through applying this …
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where entrepreneurship is increasingly present. In this sense, it addresses addresses two research objectives. Taking as …
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Public Policies are vital for unleashing and fostering entrepreneurship in every society. This paper reviewed the … entrepreneurial economic growth in three countries in Africa. This is an explorative multiple case study that has used national and … international documents and reports to examine the state and nature of the entrepreneurship policies in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania …
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’ beneficiaries. We empirically apply the positive theory of social entrepreneurship that views social entrepreneurship as a pursuit …
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This paper argues that globalisation is a force of inequality and marginalisation. The reason is it exploits the world's developing economies. This threatens entrepreneurial development and human security. The paper seek to, through dependency paradigm, concretise the view that despite the...
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This paper uses data on new firm registrations to examine entrepreneurship in Africa relative to other developing … countries. The results show that new firm creation is more pronounced in other developing regions than in Africa. In addition … new businesses in Africa. These results imply that Africa is different; therefore, it is important to implement reforms to …
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Entrepreneurship is well established as a development strategy to facilitate youth empowerment in Africa. Existing … scholarship on youth entrepreneurship, while informative, remains limited given its focus on either normative institutional … offers a place-based study of youth entrepreneurship in Botswana. The paper documents empirical findings revealing trends in …
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Financial constraints and risk taking are two well-established determinants of firm performance, however, no research analyzes how these variables are connected in the context of a high risk environment. Using data from microfinance clients in Tanzania, we derive a novel financial constraints...
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This study focuses on a national sample of customers who used commercial bank products/services in Ghana. The results demonstrate that social and cultural influences are important determinants of marketing practices of banking institutions in Ghana. Although, societal leaders are critical of the...
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