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Risk attitudes and profits among small enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
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Hierarchies, the small firm effect, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Swedish microdata
Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - 2013
enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However … fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …
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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013
entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787342
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An exploratory analysis of the effects of the formalisation policy for individual micro-entrepreneurs
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; … - 2014
promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402557
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Financial strategies for long-term success in women-owned small businesses
Dyer, Melissa Renee - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 23 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
Failure of small businesses many times is because of poor implementation of long-term financial strategies. Women small business owners face many challenges in financing their small businesses because they may not have a financial plan. Interviews with 11 women small business owners in Cleveland...
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Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship : India's informal sector firms
Gang, Ira N.; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309064
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Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship : India's informal sector firms
Gang, Ira N.; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311032
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291245
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291885
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Policy brief on refugee entrepreneurship
OECD - 2019
This policy brief assesses the potential of entrepreneurship to be used as a tool for the integration of refugees into … entrepreneurship. The series includes policy briefs on women’s entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship, senior entrepreneurship …, access to business start-up finance for inclusive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship among people with disabilities, as a …
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