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Do family and kinship networks support entrepreneurs? : family and kinship ties offer multiple benefits to developing country entrepreneurs but can also have adverse effects
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2016
Family and kinship networks are important in helping people get jobs and start companies, as statistics for developing countries show. Promising new research has begun to assess the positive and negative effects of these family and kinship ties on entrepreneurial success. To what extent, and...
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Essays on the individual-opportunity nexus and the action-interaction nexus in entrepreneurship
Mayer-Haug, Katrin - 2013
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Inputs, gender roles or sharing norms? : assessing the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe J.; Vaillant, Julia - 2014
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....
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Perceived desirability, feasibility, and social norms as antecedents on hospitality students' entrepreneurial intention in Malysia : does gender make a difference?
Muhamad Nizam Saadin; Daskin, Mustafa - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 25 (2015) 4, pp. 456-474
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The long run gender origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from Australia's convict history
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024
This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men … backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for … entrepreneurship among men will be higher in neighbourhoods which had historically high sex ratios. We propose that high sex ratios …
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Entrepreneurship in cities
Tavassoli, Sam; Obschonka, Martin; Audretsch, David B. - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 50 (2021) 7, pp. 1-21
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Entrepreneurship in cities
Tavassoli, Sam; Obschonka, Martin; Audretsch, David B. - 2021
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Social networks and the geography of entrepreneurship
Sorenson, Olav - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 51 (2018) 3, pp. 527-537
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Clusters and Entrepreneurship
Delgado, Mercedes; Porter, Michael E.; Stern, Scott - 2016
This paper examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of … region-industry. While reversion to the mean and diminishing returns to entrepreneurship at the region-industry level can … clusters on entrepreneurship. After controlling for convergence in start-up activity at the region-industry level, industries …
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Clusters and Entrepreneurship
Delgado, Mercedes; Porter, Michael E.; Stern, Scott - 2015
This paper examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of … region-industry. While reversion to the mean and diminishing returns to entrepreneurship at the region-industry level can … impact of clusters on entrepreneurship. After controlling for convergence in start-up activity at the region-industry level …
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