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Developmental management: Theories, methods, and applications in entrepreneurship, innovation, and sensemaking

Huarng, Kun-Huang; Ribeiro-Soriano, Domingo Enrique - In: Journal of Business Research 67 (2014) 5, pp. 657-662

“Developmental management: Theories, methods, and applications in entrepreneurship, innovation, and sensemaking”. All of them went … the issues in entrepreneurship, innovation, and sensemaking. Entrepreneurship contributes to the quality and future hopes …

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Entrepreneurship, economic growth, and innovation: Are feedback effects at work?

Galindo, Miguel-Ángel; Méndez, María Teresa - In: Journal of Business Research 67 (2014) 5, pp. 825-829

This study aims to analyze the relationships between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth, and to show the … entrepreneurship facilitates this analysis. This paper presents empirical analysis of entrepreneurial activity in 13 developed …. The analysis shows that several factors have positive impacts on innovation and entrepreneurship, including monetary …

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The future of research on entrepreneurial intentions

Fayolle, Alain; Liñán, Francisco - In: Journal of Business Research 67 (2014) 5, pp. 663-666

Entrepreneurial intention is a rapidly evolving field of research, with a growing number of studies using entrepreneurial intention as a powerful theoretical framework. Some authors, however, are now calling for scholars to rethink the future of research on entrepreneurial intentions. This paper...

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Competing through service innovation: The role of bricolage and entrepreneurship in project-oriented firms

Salunke, Sandeep; Weerawardena, Jay; McColl-Kennedy, … - In: Journal of Business Research 66 (2013) 8, pp. 1085-1097

(bricolage) to innovate and stay ahead of rivals. The research shows that service entrepreneurship (SE) and bricolage influence …

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Persistence in entrepreneurship and its implications for the European entrepreneurial promotion policy

Millán, José María; Congregado, Emilio; Román, … - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 1, pp. 83-106

– as related but distinct groups within entrepreneurship, this work analyzes the roles of different factors in … entrepreneurship survival in Europe from a new perspective: contrasting the determinants of own-account workers’ survival with those … affecting employers’ survival in the EU-15. Our results confirm the presence of persistence in entrepreneurship. However, we …

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Constrained Gazelles: High Potentials in West Africa’s Informal Economy

Grimm, Michael; Knorringa, Peter; Lay, Jann - In: World Development 40 (2012) 7, pp. 1352-1368

The informal sector is typically characterized as being very heterogeneous and possibly composed of two clearly distinct segments, sometimes called the lower and upper tiers. However, empirical evidence shows that even among lower tier entrepreneurs profitability can be quite high. We combine...

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Self-Employment in the Developing World

Gindling, T.H.; Newhouse, David - In: World Development 56 (2014) C, pp. 313-331

This paper analyzes heterogeneity among the self-employed in 74 developing countries, representing two-thirds of the population of the developing world. After profiling how worker characteristics vary by employment status, it classifies self-employed workers outside agriculture as...

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The Effects of Risk and Shocks on Non-Farm Enterprise Development in Rural Ethiopia

Rijkers, Bob; Söderbom, Måns - In: World Development 45 (2013) C, pp. 119-136

This paper assesses the impact of risk and shocks on non-farm enterprise development in rural Ethiopia using a matched household–enterprise–community dataset augmented with precipitation based measures of risk. The likelihood of running a non-farm firm and the returns to running such firms...

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Entrepreneurship: The role of extreme events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José A. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) S1, pp. 78-78

terrorist attacks influence individual perceptions of the rewards to entrepreneurship and, more surprisingly, extreme events … affect entrepreneurship rates positively in a robust and significant way. …

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Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru

Valdivia, Martín - In: Journal of Development Economics 113 (2015) C, pp. 33-51

With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female...

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