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Entrepreneurial Interest, Vision and the Self-employment Choice Decision in UK Regions
Ashcroft, Brian; Holden, Darryl; Low, Kenneth - In: Regional Studies 43 (2009) 8, pp. 1075-1090
model. The results have implications for national and regional entrepreneurship policy because they reveal a clear … distinction between the factors governing interest in entrepreneurship and those influencing start-up from within the interested …
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Entrepreneurship and Regional Culture: The Case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan
Aoyama, Yuko - In: Regional Studies 43 (2009) 3, pp. 495-512
Aoyama Y. Entrepreneurship and regional culture: the case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan, Regional Studies. Successful … entrepreneurship today must respond to the demands from global market forces. Yet, simultaneously, entrepreneurs must also respond to … plays an important role in shaping entrepreneurship, even in a new economic sector. By taking two 'entrepreneurial regions …
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Foreign Aid for Innovation: The Missing Ingredient in Private Sector Development?
Naudé, Wim - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2011
’ (PSD) – or entrepreneurship – so that one can see PSD initiatives to have been the major channel through which donors have … particular attention are the entrepreneurship-government relationship, and the innovation policy-stage of development dimension. …
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Drivers of international development for born global companies founded by Italian entrepreneurs
Cannone, Giusy; Costantino, Gaia; Pisoni, Alessia; … - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - 2012
The rise of “born global” companies, i.e. companies that internationalize their activities from inception or shortly thereafter led researchers to explore the various aspects related to early internationalization. Nevertheless, authors argue that further evidence and analysis on these firms...
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Does Labor Diversity Promote Entrepreneurship?
Marino, Marianna; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2012
entrepreneurship in financial and business services. …
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List of suggestions for behavioural elements in the macroeconomic model
Gazheli, Ardjan; Antal, Miklós; Bergh, Jeroen van den - WWWforEurope - 2013
Traditional economic theory describes economic agents as being perfectly rational. According to this approach, agents posses all necessary information and have the ability to process this information to make the best decision for maximizing their profit. However, in the real world this...
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Exit dynamics of start-up firms. Does profit matter?
Golombek, Rolf; Raknerud, Arvid - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
While little attention has been paid to the role of profitability in the empirical literature on firm exit, we employ a detailed recently established database of Norwegian manufacturing firms to identify the extent to which profitability explains a firm's exit behavior. Some key characteristics...
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The financing of young firms. How persistent are borrowing constraints?
Fjærli, Erik; Iancu, Diana - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
Are investments by new firms constrained by access to financing? If so, are the constraints persistent or do firms overcome their financing problems during the first years of operation? We examine the role of capital constraints by estimating the relation between founders’ initial wealth and...
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The family – a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship?
Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in … small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this …
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L’influence des stratégies des sociétés de capital-risque sur la performance de leurs investissements en Europe - The impact of venture capitalists’ investment strategies on their...
Pommet, Sophie; Sattin, Jean-François - In: Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie 15 (2012) 3, pp. 27-47
(VF)Cet article étudie la profitabilité des stratégies de financement adoptées par des capital-risqueurs localisés en France, en Allemagne et en Grande-Bretagne. À partir de l'analyse de 3474 entreprises financées provenant de la base Thomson Private Equity, nous examinons l’impact de...
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