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. Drawing on data from a comprehensive survey of small- and medium-sized businesses in Australia, this paper tests whether … Australia's migrant entrepreneurs have greater difficulty accessing external business finance than their Australia …-born counterparts. In doing so, it tests the theoretical proposition that the passage of time (or time spent in Australia) mediates a …
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business owners and entrepreneurs and to examine the role that gender and ethnicity plays in the demand for specialized …
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Purpose – While some previous research supports the existence of a finance gap within the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, particularly for female owned SMEs, the evidence is hardly unequivocal. Further, much of the prior research has focused on supply‐ rather than demand‐side...
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borrowers and the role of gender as a moderating variable. Our sample was 356 micro, small, and medium enterprise actors in the … discouraged borrowers. However, the contextual role of gender is not fully proven because it can only weaken the self …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent to which the corporate governance framework can be applied to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and discuss these issues further within the Ghanaian context. Design/methodology/approach – After considering some of the key...
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Purpose – The current study aims to examine the role of international entrepreneurship and innovation in small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) internationalisation, also touching on the role of the firm size as a proxy of resources in the SME internationalisation process. The study seeks to...
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Purpose – The idea of business clusters is used more and more in public policy as businesses and governments are noticing their advantages. The purpose of this study was to determine if a business cluster would be possible in an energy sector of Albany, New York, since energy is so diverse....
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