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Exploring the nuances in the relationship "culturestrategy" for the business world

Dimitrov, Kiril - 2016

The current article explores interesting, significant and recently identified nuances in the relationship "culture-strategy". The shared views of leading scholars at the University of National and World Economy in relation with the essence, direction, structure, role and hierarchy of...

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Former communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2019

people who joined the former ruling party tended have fewer of the traits associated with entrepreneurship such as motivation …

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Key behavioural characteristics of small-business owners : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Myanmar

Rand, John; Castro Rodriguez, Paula; Tarp, Finn; … - 2019

This study investigates the role of owners' personal preferences and behaviour in determining the success of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises using a lab-in-the-field experiment with small-business owners in Myanmar. The study is a complement to a 2017 quantitative survey conducted...

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What makes an employer?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important …

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What makes an employer?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important …

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Policy brief on refugee entrepreneurship

OECD - 2019

This policy brief assesses the potential of entrepreneurship to be used as a tool for the integration of refugees into … entrepreneurship. The series includes policy briefs on women’s entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship, senior entrepreneurship …, access to business start-up finance for inclusive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship among people with disabilities, as a …

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Enhancing SME productivity : policy highlights on the role of managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages

Marchese, Marco; Giuliani, Elisa; Salazar-Elena, Juan Carlos - 2019

Based on an extensive review of the academic and policy literature, this paper focuses on the role of managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages in enhancing SME productivity. The paper is structured as follows. First, it presents estimates on productivity gaps by firm size to...

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Entrepreneurial persistence beyond survival : measurement and determinants

Caliendo, Marco; Göthner, Maximilian; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019

Entrepreneurial persistence is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's continued positive maintenance of entrepreneurial motivation and constantly-renewed active engagement in a new business venture despite counter forces or enticing alternatives. It is thus a crucial factor for entrepreneurs when...

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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …

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Entrepreneurship in the shadows : wealth constraints and government policy

Tumen, Semih - 2016

I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...

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