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Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy and Philanthropy : Competition and Regulation in Nineteenth Century British Cotton Textiles
Shepherd, Alice - 2018
The paper analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial philanthropy and the competitive process. In doing so, it constructs a typology of entrepreneurial philanthropic behaviour. Such behaviour is conditioned by a combination of ideology and business strategy variables. Ideological...
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Female Entrepreneurship Theory : A Multidisciplinary Review of Resources
Loza de Siles, Emile - 2011
The author, a legal scholar, reviews academic literature regarding and otherwise relevant to the study of female entrepreneurship from across multiple disciplines. She reports that the legal academy has only minimally engaged in entrepreneurship scholarship and not at all as to female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125545
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Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Harris, Jared D.; Sapienza, Harry J.; Bowie, Norman - 2010
As the study of entrepreneurship and the study of business ethics become increasingly established, the intersection of entrepreneurship and ethics is receiving increasing scholarly attention. In this paper, we review the research connecting ethics and entrepreneurship, classifying the literature...
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Italian Firms in History : Size, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Amatori, Franco - 2013
The economic performance of a country depends, among other things, on the strategies and structures of its firms. In the framework that is designed by institutions and policies and determined by technology and macroeconomic cycles, entrepreneurs decide how to allocate available resources in...
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Fragmented Networks and Entrepreneurship in Late Imperial Russia
Hillmann, Henning; Aven, Brandy L. - 2011
Emergent economies suffer from underdeveloped market infrastructures and insufficient public institutions to enforce contract commitments and property rights. Informal reputation-based arrangements may substitute for government enforcement but they require close-knit networks that enable...
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Frank H. Knight on the 'Entrepreneur Function' in Modern Enterprise
Emmett, Ross B. - 2011
Frank Knight's theory of the entrepreneurial function in modern enterprise is explored in two contexts. The first is the dismissal of the neoclassical theory of business enterprise by Berle and Means in The Modern Corporation and Private Property, and their subsequent call for measures that...
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"Corporate Scene Investigation" : a praxeological attempt to sketch the profile of the entrepreneur in modern business
Jora, Octavian-Dragomir; Topan, Mihai-Vladimir; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 456-473
, they are fiefs of in-built specialization among the corporate governance stakeholders, each of them representing individual … sounder judgments about the wellstructured and poorly-structured companies (good vs. poor corporate governance) or about … institutions found to be business (un)friendly (good vs. poor corporate law-making). We define “good governance” at the level of …
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The History of Entrepreneurship Education in the United Kingdom, 1860-2020
Pittaway, Luke; Henry, Colette; Kirby, David; Thompson, John - 2023
This paper uses an interpretive historical approach to provide an analytical structure of the history of entrepreneurship education in the United Kingdom (UK). It begins its assessment of social imaginaries of entrepreneurship education in 1860 during the industrial revolution and the founding...
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Can oil-rich countries encourage entrepreneurship? : 'yes', 'no' but not 'perhaps'
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014
governance has a statistically significant moderating effect in entrepreneurship-oil rents nexus. …
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The influence of country-level governance on business environment and entrepreneurship : a global perspective
Groşanu, Adrian; Boţa-Avram, Cristina; Răchişan, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 60-75
The main purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of country-level governance on business environment and …-level governance at macroeconomic level will be captured by using the following six indicators developed by the World Bank: 1. Voice … is defined as a measure of formal entrepreneurship. In order to capture the extent to which country-level governance does …
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