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The role of local government in the process of entrepreneurship development

Skica, Tomasz; Bem, Agnieszka; Żygadło, Karolina - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 4, pp. 1-24

This article presents the role of local governments in supporting entrepreneurship development. The content of the … article presents the factors which foster activities undertaken by local authorities to promote entrepreneurship and also … local policy on supporting entrepreneurship. The article sets out areas of possible improvements in policy when stimulating …

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Innovation types at SMEs and external influencing factors

Walicka, Monika - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 10 (2014) 3, pp. 73-81

Stimulating innovation is one of the pressing policy challenges facing many countries in the world today. The paper analyses the external factors that Polish entrepreneurs find most detrimental to their innovative activity. A sample of 199 small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Poland were...

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Knowledge spillovers and future jobs

Audretsch, David B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Globalization brings both good and bad job news. The bad news is that jobs will be outsourced from high-cost developed countries into lower-cost locations as soon as the associated economic activity becomes mechanized and predictable. The good news is that globalization creates opportunities...

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Do family and kinship networks support entrepreneurs?

Nordman, Christophe Jalil - In: IZA World of Labor (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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Does the increase in house prices influence the creation of business startups? The case of Sweden

Berggren, Björn; Fili, Andreas; Wilhelmsson, Mats Håkan - In: REGION 4 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16

their development. Based on the existing body of knowledge on the financing of entrepreneurship, we know that insider …, they could be seen as a vital addition to the existing body of knowledge within the area of entrepreneurship and regional …

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What is a self-made expat? Self-disclosures of self-initiated expatriates

Roth, Steffen; Dana, Léo-Paul - 2015

The label expatriates is increasingly used by and applied to a growing number of persons who do not fit classical concepts of company-driven expatriation. While relevant research is engaged in establishing interaction with smaller samples of self- initiated expatriates, the present article...

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Fractionalization and Entrepreneurial Activities

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa - 2015

The vast majority of the literature on ethnicity and entrepreneurship focuses on the construct of ethnic … entrepreneurship. However, very little is known about how ethnic heterogeneity affects entrepreneurship. This study attempts to fill … entrepreneurship. We argue that potential channels that can explain the negative effect of fractionalization on entrepreneurship …

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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth

Henrekson, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...

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Entrepreneurship and the business cycle

Thurik, Roy - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business … cycle? And is there causality? A two-way relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with … the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change creating upswings (opportunity entrepreneurship) and as rational …

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Who benefits from return migration to developing countries?

Wahba, Jackline - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Return migration can have multiple benefits. It allows migrants who have accumulated savings abroad to ease credit constraints at home and set up a business. Also, emigrants from developing countries who have invested in their human capital may earn higher wages when they return. However,...

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