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This paper discusses the characteristics and determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour in Uganda. It is based on a recent survey of urban and rural entrepreneurs, executed in May 2008. The main dependent variables are business success, gestation activities and innovative performance. The paper...
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This paper presents a systematic review of (a) the impact of entrepreneurship on economic, social and environmental … welfare and (b) the factors determining this impact. Research over the past 25 years shows that entrepreneurship is one cause … of macroeconomic development, but that the relationship between entrepreneurship and welfare is very complex. The …
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This paper merges the literature on green and high-quality entrepreneurship by introducing environmental orientation as …, and international orientation. Entrepreneurship literature argues that only high-quality start-ups contribute to … orientation. Investigation using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data on 9650 entrepreneurs from 51 countries revealed that start …
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entrepreneurial spirit and economic growth. The results enable to know the impact of a specific factor on entrepreneurship and … of the country in question. On the other hand, less developed countries should not be based on generic entrepreneurship …
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We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the percapita consumption expenditure. The …
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Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational …
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Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries. The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairly representative of the structure of small business in...
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Return migration can have multiple benefits. It allows migrants who have accumulated savings abroad to ease credit constraints at home and set up a business. Also, emigrants from developing countries who have invested in their human capital may earn higher wages when they return. However,...
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This paper analyses whether different measure of entrepreneurship can explain economic growth. It utilises 14 … difference indicators of entrepreneurship to analyse the contribution of entrepreneurial activity, aspirations, and attitudes to … Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. It also examines whether the importance of entrepreneurship varies across high …
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Over the past decade or so, there has been widespread recognition that a large and growing proportion of the global workforce is employed in informal sector enterprises. To explain this, neo-liberals contend that enterprises operate in the informal sector due to high taxes, public sector...
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