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Local Systems’ Strategies Copying with Globalization: Collective Local Entrepreneurship

Covi, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

this gap introducing the concept of ‘Collective Local Entrepreneurship’, a reference point, a device to whom anchor the …

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Venture capital optimal investment portfolio strategies selection in diffusion - type financial systems in global capital markets with nonlinearities

Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The condensed research article presents some innovative research results on the venture capital optimal investment portfolio strategies selection in the diffusion-type financial systems in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the incomplete information, which are...

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The economic and social value of fostering entrepreneurs in a regional system: the role of education

DUBBINI, Sabrina; MICOZZI, Alessandra; MICOZZI, Francesca - In: Economia Marche / Journal of Applied Economics XXXII (2013) 2, pp. 46-690

evidence, the paper analyses: entrepreneurship as the main explanatory factor for the economic performance of a country; the … potential of education in fostering entrepreneurship; the conceptualization of innovation and education as processes consistent …

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Gendered Resource Access and Utilisation in Swedish Family Farming

Andersson, Elias; Lidestav, Gun - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 188-203

Gendered relations in resource access and farming are two important intersecting themes of gender studies in a northern rural context. However, conventional analysis and perceptions of the economy conceal the contribution of women within families, in businesses and in the labor market. This...

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Role of Strong <i>versus</i> Weak Networks in Small Business Growth in an Emerging Economy

Kozan, M. Kamil; Akdeniz, Levent - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 1, pp. 35-50

The study tests whether strong rather than weak ties account for small business growth in Turkey. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire filled out by the owners of small firms operating in four cities. Growth is comprised of two main areas, production expansion and knowledge...

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Over-Confidence and Entrepreneurial Choice Under Ambiguity

Shyti, Anisa - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

Entrepreneurship studies have attributed to over-confidence decisions to start a new venture. Many decision situations …

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Who walks out? Entrepreneurship in a global economy

Couyoumdjian, Juan Pablo - In: International Review of Law and Economics 32 (2012) 1, pp. 158-165

entrepreneurship must be viewed as a mobile resource. Entrepreneurs can thus “vote-with-their-feet” when deciding where to establish … their businesses. The institutional context for entrepreneurship is a key determinant of an agent's decision to migrate. In … entrepreneurship. We then offer an exploration on the problem of entrepreneurship in an economy that is open to the international …

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The value of business planning before start-up — A decision-theoretical perspective

Chwolka, Anne; Raith, Matthias G. - In: Journal of Business Venturing 27 (2012) 3, pp. 385-399

In this paper we analyze business planning from the perspective of the nascent entrepreneur. We measure its value for the entrepreneur at the point where he must decide whether or not to plan, and we contrast our results with empirical studies that compare firms' performance after market entry....

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Narrative attributions of entrepreneurial failure

Mantere, Saku; Aula, Pekka; Schildt, Henri; Vaara, Eero - In: Journal of Business Venturing 28 (2013) 4, pp. 459-473

We examine how organizational stakeholders use narratives in their psychological processing of venture failure. We identify a range of “narrative attributions”, alternative accounts of failure that actors draw on to process the failure and their role in it. Our analysis provides a view of...

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Religion, social class, and entrepreneurial choice

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Tamvada, … - In: Journal of Business Venturing 28 (2013) 6, pp. 774-789

While considerable concern has emerged about the links between religion and economic growth, little is actually known about how religion and social class impact the decision making of individuals. Using institutional theory and social dominance theory, this paper examines the influence of...

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