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Show Me the Money; Access to Finance for Small Borrowers in Canada
Klyuev, Vladimir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper examines access to business finance by Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to housing finance by Canadian households (particularly non-prime borrowers) against the background of a fairly concentrated and protected banking industry. It finds access broadly adequate...
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Profiling women business founders from opportunity and necessity orientations: a multinational assessment
Kariv, Dafna - In: International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems 1 (2010) 1, pp. 59-81
both genders embark on entrepreneurship due to the benefits they foresee from this course of action. Necessity orientations … entrepreneurs. …
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From seekers to squatters: The rise of knowledge entrepreneurship
Cooke, Philip; Porter, Julie - In: CESifo Forum 8 (2007) 2, pp. 21-28
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From small business promotion to creating an entrepreneurial society
Audretsch, David B. - In: CESifo Forum 8 (2007) 2, pp. 3-6
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Why Women Enter into Entrepreneurship? An Emerging Conceptual Framework Based on the Peruvian Case
Avolio, Beatrice - In: Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (2012), pp. 43-63
The study identifies the various reasons why women become entrepreneurs, considering their life cycle and the factors … that have encouraged them, using the qualitative paradigm based on case studies of twenty-four women entrepreneurs in Peru …. The research identified six profiles according to the different routes by which women choose entrepreneurship: Young Women …
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CONSIDERATIONS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURS. CURRENT FEATURES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ROMANIA
PANZARU, Stelian - In: Review of General Management 17 (2013) 1, pp. 95-101
”. This study presents some considerations on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship development stage in …Promoting entrepreneurship in Europe has been a core objective of the European Union ever since the Lisbon European …. The European Commission began the debate by publishing, at the start of 2003, a Green Paper on „Entrepreneurship in Europe …
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Debt financing among native- and immigrant-owned firms: empirical evidence from Swedish small business at start up stage
Yazdanfar, Darush; Abbasian, Saeid - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 422-434
This paper provides evidence on ethnic differences in bank debt financing among small Swedish firms at the start-up stage. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of small firms consisting of 2,814 native- and immigrant-owned firms for year 2008. The method of binary logistic...
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Family firm prerequisites for international business operations: a production and marketing capabilities approach
Kansikas, Juha; Huovinen, Jari; Hyrsky, Kimmo - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 435-448
The purpose of this study is to compare SME family firms' and non-family firms' organisational prerequisites for …
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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
'buy' the DM service rather than to 'make' it for themselves, entrepreneurs need to make quality measurements simple and … globalisation offers various opportunities for entrepreneurs to exploit institutional differences, as can be witnessed in the recent …
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