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Young entrepreneurship is an important lever for economic growth and employment creation in developing countries … estimated the impact of credit uptake (formal, informal, and family) on young entrepreneurship performance in Benin, using 2014 …
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We examine entrepreneurial ventures in a post-conflict context to identify practices that are helpful for companies … operating in conflict zones while contributing to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16)-Peace, Justice … in their rural communities. We develop four qualitative case studies of ex-combatant entrepreneurship to identify the …
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Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind … spot in entrepreneurship scholarship. As a first step to closing this gap, we offer a well-identified synthetic control … of the start of the conflict. In contrast, Russia had lost more than 1.4 million SMEs (42%) five years into the conflict …
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Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind … spot in entrepreneurship scholarship. As a first step to closing this gap, we offer a well-identified synthetic control … of the start of the conflict. In contrast, Russia had lost more than 1.4 million SMEs (42%) five years into the conflict …
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Genocides and mass atrocities do not arise spontaneously, but tend to be meticulously sourced and managed. As such the concern in this paper is with the role of businesses in these processes, with a particular focus on the agency and decision making of entrepreneurs and managers. We critically...
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This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate … existing literature, we formulate two hypotheses: (1) state-based conflict has a negative association with productive and …
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enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However … fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …
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After more than half a century of armed conflict, Colombia is moving towards a post-conflict period. National and … regional strategies aimed to strengthen institutional capacities, promote productive entrepreneurship and reduce organized … productive entrepreneurship in Colombia. Three composite indices based upon international assessments or seminal studies were …
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This contribution reviews definitions of entrepreneurial networks and entrepreneurial motives for networking. A distinction is drawn between entrepreneurial and family business networks. An outline of the variables that shape the composition of entrepreneurial networks looks into the boundaries...
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