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Explicating transcendental factors for viable digital business : towards an explanatory model for digital start-up emergence

Ajah, Emmanuel Okoro - In: Digital business 5 (2025) 1, pp. 1-22

successful digital businesses. However, our knowledge of the causal interplay in digital start-up development remains limited as … digital start-up emergence. In response, this study adopts liminality theory, enactment theory, and technology affordance … realist single case study methodology to explore various narratives of digital start-up founders within Nigeria's digital …

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The role of entrepreneurial ecosystems for start-up acceleration in emerging markets

Werner, Sven; Sievert, Maximiliane; Haney, Aoife Brophy; … - 2026

ventures is limited, specifically in emerging markets. In this paper, we leverage novel data from a pan-African start-up … Start-up-Accelerators, um zu untersuchen, ob und warum Accelerator-Programme wirksam sind. Aufbauend auf der Perspektive …

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Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance

Deng, Haotian; Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart; Bijnens, Gert - 2026

This paper studies how employment subsidies for start-ups shape their performance. We exploit an unexpected policy reform in Belgium that permanently exempted start-ups hiring their first employee from payroll taxes for that employee. Using firm-level administrative data and a...

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