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survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …
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Research on innovation has focussed on management structures, processes and tools, whereas research on entrepreneurship …
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This contribution discusses a theory of entrepreneurship, its empirical base, and its implications. First, it argues … that a psychological approach is necessary to understand entrepreneurship. Second, it argues that any theory of … entrepreneurship should use active actions as a starting point — entrepreneurship is the epitome of an active agent in the market …
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In this paper, we propose that researchers might analyze key questions in entrepreneurship as problems of decision … characteristics of the experimental method. We also discuss existing experimental studies in entrepreneurship with respect to the use … demonstrate the shift in perspective that occurs when common questions in entrepreneurship are analyzed through the lens of …
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How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? This paper documents that features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita. Richer countries have fewer entrepreneurs and fewer small firms. The average, dispersion and skewness of firm size...
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To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....
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Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
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entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
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