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A profound review of the literature on entrepreneurship reveals that it does not exist a specific information tool to … measure the individuals' readiness for entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research has been building such kind of … instrument to estimate the individuals’ readiness for entrepreneurship. Its design takes in consideration the inclusion of the …
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. Their ideology impaired their ability to promote entrepreneurship because they viewed support for entrepreneurs primarily in … reforms embodied internal contradictions; 2) how reforms to market governance undermined entrepreneurship; 3) how other …
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This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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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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Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated …. It is moreover also because there is no unified scientific approach towards the role of entrepreneurship in economic …
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entrepreneurship structure and trends in the country. The report analyses in particular the characteristics and trends of companies …
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...
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This paper uses datasets from six surveys to describe entrepreneurship in Argentina. While the quantity of … entrepreneurship in Argentina is high, its quality is low, given the high proportion of informal and necessity entrepreneurs. Income is … found to play a greater role in determining probability of becoming an entrepreneur than parental wealth; entrepreneurship …
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This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that...
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This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325918