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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups
Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002
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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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Small Business Performance : The Role of Emergent Strategy
Kelly, Louise - 2014
The research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is undecided as to whether a specific EO improves firm performance. We considered EO in a different light by examining the role of emergent strategy. By considering entrepreneurial orientation as it is effected by emergent strategy, we found a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048574
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The Influence of Vietnam’s Administrative Reform on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Micro-Enterprises
Thai, Mai Thi Thanh - 2013
Basing on the results of a face-to-face survey and secondary data from General Statistics Office of Vietnam, we found that the administration reform of Vietnam has had a positive impact on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on all of its three dimensions, namely managerial perception, firm...
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Small-medium enterprise formation and Nigerian economic growth
Adeosun, Oluyemi Theophilus; Shittu, Ayodele Ibrahim - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 7 (2022) 4, pp. 286-301
Purpose This study examines the nexus between entrepreneurship through small-medium enterprise (SME) business formation … of entrepreneurship regarding employment is the most essential factor that advances economic growth and reduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413518
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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups
Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324773
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How do emerging market SMEs utilize resources in the face of environmental uncertainty?
Temouri, Yama; Shen, Kathy; Pereira, Vijay; Xie, Xuanli - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 25 (2022) 3, pp. 212-223
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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The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers
Elfenbein, Daniel W.; Hamilton, Barton H.; Zenger, Todd - 2009
entrepreneurship, a phenomenon we label the small firm effect. We explore the origins of this small firm effect, identify four classes … those with prior preferences for autonomy, who are similarly drawn into entrepreneurship. Similarly, ability sorting plays a …-for-performance links and are drawn to entrepreneurship for the same reason, or because the skills required for success in small firms are …
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Selected contraints to development of entrepreneurship in Poland
Czemiel-Grzybowska, Wioletta - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 10 (2014) 2, pp. 21-27
Small enterprises are a key source of employment, economic growth, innovation and productivity in advanced as well as emerging economies and as such they are a crucial sector of an economy. Access to financing plays an important role for the small enterprise sector in any economy. Based on...
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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Ubfal, Diego - 2019
A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...
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Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others : Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2020
We classify industries using measures of entry barriers and proceed to investigate how determinants of entry vary in high- as opposed to low-barrier fields. The wealth and educational background characteristics potential entrepreneurs possess, we found, predispose them to make distinctly...
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