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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states

Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010

This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …

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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries

Brück, Tilman; Naudé, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - 2013

entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …

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How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?

Demenet, Axel; Hoang, Quynh - 2018

Is the lack of "managerial capital", alongside human and financial capital, a constraint on the growth of firms in developing countries? The evidence on this is still mixed, especially among small and medium enterprises. This paper uses a panel of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises to...

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Capitalism and African business cultures

Taylor, Scott D. - 2014

Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked 'African culture' to a distinctive 'African capitalism', at odds with genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist ethos has taken hold within both state and society. The...

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Promoting women's economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection

Otobe, Naoko - 2014

The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...

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Breaking the metal ceiling : female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Campos, Francisco; Goldstein, Markus P.; McGorman, Laura; … - 2017

entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than …

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Business rights and ethnic exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa : addressing group-based inequality through business rights reform

Taylor, Scott D. - 2016

The business rights pillar of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor agenda is not preoccupied with equality of outcome; it concentrates instead on equality of opportunity. This paper addresses the lacuna in the business rights literature by 'bringing outcomes back in'. Certainly, equal outcomes are...

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Defining high-growth firms in South Africa

Mamburu, Mulalo - 2017

Traditionally, much of the research on economic growth drivers has been focused on small and medium enterprises. In recent years the academic focus on small businesses has shifted to a particular group of firms that are interesting from an economic growth and policy development perspective,...

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Does managerial personality matter? : evidence from firms in Viet Nam

Sharma, Smriti; Tarp, Finn - 2018

Using novel data from micro, small, and medium firms in Viet Nam, we estimate the relationship between behavioural and personality traits of owners/managers - risk attitudes, locus of control, and innovativeness - and firm-level decisions. We extend the analysis beyond standard metrics of firm...

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Key behavioural characteristics of small-business owners : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Myanmar

Rand, John; Castro Rodriguez, Paula; Tarp, Finn; … - 2019

This study investigates the role of owners' personal preferences and behaviour in determining the success of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises using a lab-in-the-field experiment with small-business owners in Myanmar. The study is a complement to a 2017 quantitative survey conducted...

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