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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2021

Despite indications that people skills are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that people skills are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including...

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Entrepreneurship in the Region

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Schmude, Jürgen (contributor) - 2006

Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective. The regional influences on entrepreneurship analyzed entail regional peculiarities and disparities in new business formation processes, the success and the employment effects of new...

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Chinese Entrepreneurship : A Social Capital Approach

Peverelli, Peter J. - 2012

Defining the problem -- Introduction -- Theory -- The environment of chinese entrepreneurs -- Case histories -- Real estate entrepreneur Wang.- Textile spin-off Niu.- LangLib - an online English study community.- Home renovator Cheng.- Migrant talor Yuan -- Restaurant entrepreneur Mr. B -- Less...

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Social Capital and its Impact on Born Transnational Firms

Krikken, Martin - 2014

Introducing the Born Transnational Firm as a Distinct Type of International Start-Up -- Corporate Flexibility and its Development in the Born Transnational Firm -- Social Capital and its Contribution to Corporate Flexibility of the Born Transnational Firm.

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William - 2015

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self employment for dry cleaning than other immigrant groups, and...

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Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship : Future Research Paradigms for Creating Innovative Business Activity

Ramadani, Veland (ed.); Dana, Léo-Paul (ed.); … - 2019

-Diversity: A Study of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs in the UK -- The Confluence of Religion and Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Informal …

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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...

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Black and White : Access to Capital Among Minority-Owned Startups

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia; Robinson, David T. - 2022

We use confidential and restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey and matched administrative data on credit scores to explore racial disparities in access to capital for new business ventures. The novel results on racial inequality in startup financing indicate that black-owned...

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Working with Christian Servant Leadership Spiritual Intelligence : The Foundation of Vocational Success

Roberts, Gary E - 2016

This book addresses how Christian leaders integrate faith into the workplace, through a love-based altruistic system of Christian Servant Leader Spiritual Intelligence (CSLSI). It hypothesizes how CSLSI positively influences a range of desirable employee attitudes and behaviors including servant...

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Spirituality and Religion in Organizing : Beyond Secular Leadership

Peltonen, Tuomo - 2017

modern materialism. Spirituality and Religion in Organizing further discusses topics such as charismatic leadership, the …Chapter 1 Introduction: making sense of spirituality and religion in organizing -- Chapter 2 Spirituality as a … phenomenon and challenge of science -- Chapter 3 Science, religion and spirituality -- Chapter 4 Spirituality in organizational …

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