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This study focused on the interrelationships among producer, auction and world prices. In so doing, it criticized previous studies and extended technique developed by Hansen (1999) to handle inferential biases occurring as a result of specification errors. The following results were found:...
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African countries, the profile of livestock production in Ethiopia is well researched but there appears to be a detachment … literature reviews to evaluate Ethiopia’s livestock policy and how it could be improved to better serve the interests of poor … livestock keepers. In addition, it reviews the roles played by the Government of Ethiopia, national and international research …
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The entrepreneurial theory of the firm argues that entrepreneurship, properly understood, is a crucial but neglected … entrepreneurship in the work of Schumpeter, Kirzner, and (especially) Knight, the paper makes the case for the entrepreneurial theory …
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The first essay builds upon economic theories of entrepreneurship that view the decision to engage in entrepreneurship … an incomplete picture of how threshold-based decision making affects the decision to engage in entrepreneurship. It is an …
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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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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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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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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 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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