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Family business dynamics: How marriage and children impact men and women entrepreneurs differently

Flaig, Anna L - 2010

This thesis focuses on women entrepreneurs' underperformance in terms of business performance, specifically addressing the question of whether the presence of children and a spouse impact self-employed men and women's wages differently. This study investigates the female underperformance...

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Making sense of high-tech entrepreneurial careers: The meaning(s) and materialities of work for young adults

Dohrman, Rebecca L - 2010

questions: (RQ1): How are entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial work communicatively constituted by young adults?; (RQ1a): What … are the D/discourses of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial work for young adults?; and (RQ1b): What are the material …-symbolic intersections of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial work? To respond to these questions, multiple methods were used in this study …

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Two models of international country segmentation [electronic resource]

Budeva, Desislava G. - 2009

The growth of global competition has established international segmentation as a key issue in developing, positioning and selling products throughout the world (Ter Hofstede, Steenkamp and Wedel 1999). Many international segmentation studies have used macro-level, secondary data to identify...

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Mitigating Financial Risk for Small Business Entrepreneurs

Harner, Michelle M. - 2011

Financial distress by definition threatens a company’s viability. Entrepreneurial and start-up entities are particularly vulnerable to this threat. Yet, much of the discussion following the recent recession focuses almost exclusively on financial institutions and “too-big-to-fail”...

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15.391 Early Stage Capital, Fall 2003

Loessberg, Shari - 2003

15.391 examines the elements of raising early stage capital, focusing on start-up ventures and the early stages of company development. This course also prepares entrepreneurs to make the best use of outside advisors, and to negotiate effective long-term relationships with funding sources....

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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2004-Spring 2005

Locke, Richard M.; Loessberg, Shari - 2005

. From the course home page: Course Description A new form of entrepreneurship is developing. Instead of focusing just on one … Entrepreneurship Center and all future generations of MIT students. …

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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained? Venture Capital, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets

McKnight, Lee; Parker, Jesse - 2002

entrepreneurship and technical and business innovations. Finally, weexplore in more depth review the role that ethnic diaspora play in … encouragingentrepreneurship in developing nations, as well as within the global heart of Internetinnovation and entrepreneurship itself, Silicon …

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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2002

Locke, Richard M.; Murray, Fiona E.; Johnson, Simon; … - 2002

. From course home page: A new form of entrepreneurship is developing. Instead of focusing just on one country, today … global startups look for advice and help. This is an important goal for you, the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and all future …

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The short- and long-run employment impact of COVID-19 through the effects of real and financial shocks on new firms.

Albert, Christoph; Caggese, Andrea; González, Beatriz - 2020

En este artículo usamos la evidencia empírica más reciente disponible para predecir el impacto del shock del Covid-19 en la tasa de entrada de empresas, en especial en la entrada de empresas de alto crecimiento, y en sus implicaciones en la creación de empleo a corto y a largo plazo. El...

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The Determinants of Self-Employed Income in a Regional Economy

Swindall, Devin C.; Willis, David B.; Boys, Kathryn A.; … - 2011

Supporters claim that entrepreneurship is critical to building and sustaining the regional economies of urban and rural … areas across the nation. Proponents argue that economic development practices that enhance and support entrepreneurship are …

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