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Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015

We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307496

The late turn-out of the Slovak star-up factories: locational and institutional factors

Hudec, Oto; Lavcak, Marek - 2015

In recent years, start-ups and creative industries economy have recorded an extraordinary expansion. The geography of start-up and creative industries is often coincident with the factors of agglomeration economies and networking assets together with talent inherence and managerial culture,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400609

Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … development policies and further research are outlined. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401794

Peace, prosperity and pro-growth entrepreneurship

Naudé, Wim - 2007

Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of post-conflict states. In this paper I critically evaluate this view. I argue that entrepreneurship is a ubiquitous quality in post-conflict states but not necessarily always for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323518

What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

This article examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325306

The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Poschke, Markus - 2013

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329112

Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329197

Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Naudé, Wim - 2018

In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984501

Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?

Naudé, Wim - 2009

Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273479

Entrepreneurship is not a binding constraint on growth and development in the poorest countries

Naudé, Wim - 2009

It is often claimed that entrepreneurship is indispensable for economic growth and development. These claims are mostly … generated by scholars working in the field of entrepreneurship and management studies. In contrast, development economics … scholars seem to be less concerned about entrepreneurship in the development process Who is right? I show that the arguments …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273517

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