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Most studies on entrepreneurs' networks incorporate social capital and networks as independent variables that affect … entrepreneurs' actions and its outcomes. By contrast, this article examines social capital of the Chinese and Russian entrepreneurs … and venture capitalists as dependent variables, and it examines entrepreneurs' social capital from the perspectives of …
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-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of … individually explores both the personal and professional networks of 958 Spanish entrepreneurs. Findings reveal how the two …
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We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...
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Based on original survey data, this paper analyses and compares the role of personal traits and social capital in determining entrepreneurial intentions of students in Hong Kong and in Guangzhou (mainland China). The two cities are culturally closely related but differ strongly with respect to...
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Using the resource-based view of the firm, this article examines how different resources are used by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in response to environmental uncertainty in an emerging market context. A survey was conducted involving 212 owners, CEOs, or managing directors of SMEs...
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This paper reviews the evidence on financing technology-based small firms (TBSFs) in Europe. The main findings in the literature are the 1) European TBSF's finance new investments by relying primarily on internal funds, due to capital market failures induced by asymmetric information; 2)...
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The entire venture capital sector of Central and Eastern Europe is characterised by the increased weight of state resources. The strengthening of public activities is mainly due to the new type of equity schemes introduced in the European Union's 2007 to 2013 programming period, which allowed...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a direct test of the small-firm uniqueness hypothesis advanced by Ang (1991). We do this by using the 5B-IPO program of the SEC as our instrument to define a small firm. Having identified small firms, we test the three IPO anomalies to see if small firms...
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Over the past thirty years, a number of social entrepreneurs have managed to create fairly large social enterprises … and growing, it continues to be highly fragmented – for social entrepreneurs and more classical non-profits alike. This … question remains: How to fund social entrepreneurs efficiently?There is great enthusiasm for impact investing and social …
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