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better understand the complicity of business there is a need for a shift from diagnostic attention on how businesses are … engaged in genocide to a more analytical exploration of why businesses have made the choices they did in the process of their …
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
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during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
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break in the disruptiveness of entrepreneurship and business papers occurred around 1999. These results should not be taken …
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results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns significantly more than the median salaried … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
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becoming self-employed later in life and 2) of being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales. Our results …
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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, policymakers have been increasingly striving to support female entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis...
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African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a thorough reappraisal of the sector. What are less well understood, however, are the drivers that reallocate scarce human and physical resources across occupations and space, and...
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We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...
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