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Accès au crédit bancaire et survie des PME camerounaises : Le rôle du capital social (Bank Credit Access and Cameroonians SMEs Survival: Does Social Capital Matter?)

Henri, Ngoa - 2013

Le capital social est actuellement évoqué comme un catalyseur d'accès au crédit bancaire pour la PME. La présente étude vise à vérifier cette assertion en examinant l'impact de diverses dimensions du capital social entrepreneurial sur l'accès au crédit bancaire des PME camerounaises. A...

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The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Firms : The Importance of Social Capital and Networking in Innovative Entrepreneurship

Hulsink, Willem - 2013

established companies and managers (instead of entrepreneurs and smaller firms, as what we are interested in). The main line of …

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Drivers of change or cut-throat competitors? Challenging Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met … with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter … a trading Diaspora in general vis-à-vis local entrepreneurs, regardless of the background national culture in which it …

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The impact of consumer credit access on self-employment and entrepreneurship

Herkenhoff, Kyle; Phillips, Gordon M.; Cohen-Cole, Ethan - 2018

We examine how consumer credit access impacts self-employment and small business ownership by building a new dataset that links 3 million individual earnings and credit reports to pass-through tax records. We show that self-employment and employer business ownership increase with personal credit...

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International entrepreneurship : linking entrepreneurial motivation, orientation and network relationship

Sekliuckiene, Jurgita - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 327-341

The paper analyses the importance of collaboration and networks in international entrepreneurship by distinguishing entrepreneurial small and medium firms (SMEs). SMEs, which characterized by fast internationalisation of their activity from the very beginning of the establishment despite limited...

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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2012

growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation … tax system induce entrepreneurs to choose projects with too little risk and this problem arises primarily when … entrepreneurs market their product themselves. When innovations reduce only the fixed costs of production this leads to a …

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The Small Businesses’ Responsible Entrepreneurship and Their Stakeholder Engagement Through Digital Media

Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2018

This research explored the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) owner-managers' attitudes toward digital media and stakeholder engagement. Its research methodology integrated measures from the technological acceptance model, the pace of technological innovation and corporate social...

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Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer : Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?

Henley, Andrew - 2019

Only a minority of micro-businesses create jobs for others. This paper addresses whether personal characteristics and resources of the microbusiness owner or the local external economic environment are drivers of job creation. In the UK context of significant growth in self-employment but a...

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Enhancing women's engagement in entrepreneurial business activities

Ristovska, Natasha; Blazheska, Daliborka - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 11 (2020) 2, pp. 213-230

number of 50 women entrepreneurs in order to identify the most important factors for ehancing the development of women …

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The effects of COVID-19 on U.S. small businesses: evidence from owners, managers, and employees

Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2020

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...

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