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As the social entrepreneurship concept continues to gain public recognition and momentum it has also generated a … growing demand among college students for nonprofit entrepreneurship educational opportunities. However, the core features of … entrepreneurship and other fields of study continues to be rather fuzzy. This paper approach social entrepreneurship from a nonprofit …
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benefit from managerial ties. The study contributes to both entrepreneurship and social network theories by summarizing …
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the role of entrepreneurship within the United States economy. While many economists focus on the availability and … role of entrepreneurship within the U.S. economy, critics note the use of aggregate data as a potential confounding factor …. In order to contribute to the empirical analysis of entrepreneurship, this paper analyzes the effects of value added as a …
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When Kodak and other Fortune 500 companies closed their plants in Chamblee,Georgia, it devastated the small city's economy. Chamblee began a process of"asset-based community development," but fell short of identifying itscompetitive advantage. The 1990 Census, however, revealed a unique asset -...
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On April 29, 2009, a town hall meeting of women business owners was held in Atlanta at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Student Center. Hosted and facilitated by the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC), this meeting was the seventh in a series of meetings that began in March 2007....
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entrepreneurship among independent inventors and other individuals in Georgia communities. To further understand how to best serve the …
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and entrepreneurship in selected former Yugoslav countries. The goal was to determine whether firms’ objective remains the … firms, entrepreneurship, and self-employment.The answers and insights provided by these three essays reveal that merely … entrepreneurship and therefore cannot always serve as a basis for future growth. The first essay uses Macedonian firm-level data to …
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provides a basis upon which future research on the relationship between political environments and entrepreneurship can build. …
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decreases the influence of imprinting on entrepreneurship choices. Moreover, I find that nascent entrepreneurs are more likely … established organizations adapt to entrepreneurship choices: organizations provide greater compensation and discretion to …
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Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition and development, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in...
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