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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Entrepreneurial activities"”.
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ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE BRAZILIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARA
… of alternative resources generated from entrepreneurial activities in order to supplement the lack of government funding for higher education. This study analyzes this issue, addresses questions about the creation of private institutions that provide fiscal support to federal …
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Economic Development in Developing Countries: An In-depth Analysis of the Nexus of Social Capital and Institutions in Fostering Entrepreneurial Activities for Economic Development
… makes dual contribuEons to understanding entrepreneurial dynamics and social capital in developing naEons. Study 1 delves into the intricate relaEonship between the business environment, entrepreneurial acEvity, and human development index. Employing a two-stage regression analysis on …
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Impact of Segregation on Social Capital and Economic Outcomes
… affect black/white economic outcomes via entrepreneurial activities? Does the relationship between social capital, entrepreneurship, and black/white economic outcomes change when social capital interacts with segregation? Drawing from Bourdieu's (1986) and Coleman’s (1990) social capital …
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The identification and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities on family-owned estates in the north-east of Scotland.
… perpetuating family ownership. To enable this, entrepreneurial diversification is advocated by both landowner associations and rural consultancies. However, upper-class estate owners have historically been perceived to be reluctant to engage in entrepreneurial activities and some remain so. With …
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The Entrepreneurial Gender Gap in sub-Saharan Africa: An Institutional Framework
… economy women are not as actively engaged in entrepreneurial ventures as their male counterparts. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the few regions of the world with a high concentration of female entrepreneurs. This empirical study compares the varying levels of female involvement in …
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New Venture Creation and Infrastructure in Developed and Developing World Countries
… infrastructural investments, and to boost entrepreneurial activities in developed and developing world countries (DDWC). Research has shown that scholars do not give infrastructure due importance in entrepreneurship studies. This thesis aims to critically evaluate nature and type of the …
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The state and entrepreneurship in China: Essays from institutional and contingency perspectives
… understanding of the mechanisms through which entrepreneurial activities rise or fall. My dissertation takes a contingency approach and test my claims by studying the booming entrepreneurial activities in China where the state has been widely acknowledged as a strong one. In the first study, I …
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New Economics of Venture Capitalism? Assessing the Role of Remittances on Household Entrepreneurship
… a key source of potential investment income for entrepreneurial activities and often have higher cost corridors in Southern Africa compared to other regions. This paper seeks to analyse the effects of remittance receipt on the likelihood to engage in household entrepreneurship in Malawi using …
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Transnational Migration: A Study of Ghanaian Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Socio-economic Activities in the Canadian Prairies
… focuses on the transnational economic activities of Ghanaian immigrant entrepreneurs in three Canadian Prairie cities – Calgary, Saskatoon/Regina, and Winnipeg. The study specifically explores immigrants’ motivation for transnational entrepreneurship, experiences, challenges, and coping …
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Embeddedness in the startup and growth of black women entrepreneurs in the West Midlands (UK)
… scarcity of research specifically addressing the entrepreneurial activities of black women. Existing literature predominantly focuses on women entrepreneurship and ethnic minority entrepreneurship, often overlooking the unique challenges encountered by black women in establishing and scaling their …
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Entrepreneurship and Identity among a group of Ghanaian women in Durban (South Africa)
… Africa, because African women’s transnational activities have been neglected until now in studies on African entrepreneurship in South Africa. As Ghanaian women in South Africa through their entrepreneurial activities provided the background through which this researcher has initiated a …
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Identifying Cross-Country Key Drivers of Social Entrepreneurial Activity
… factors that explained variation in social entrepreneurial activities both broadly and narrowly defined; then, through in-depth individual interviews with government officials and focus groups composed of social entrepreneurs, the study explored how the quantitative findings manifested in …
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Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women's micro businesses.
… poor infrastructure and minimal resources, limit entrepreneurial possibilities. Nonetheless, poor rural female entrepreneurs use enterprise to try to improve their lives. But this survivalist entrepreneurship appears radically different from western models of enterprise and we know very little …
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South African Airways : state - or public enterprise?
… as an administrative unit is unsuitable for the entrepreneurial activities of an airline organisation; that consequently, South African Airways should extricate itself from the Railways and Harbours Administration, which is primarily concerned with surface modes of transportation within the …
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Youth access to empowerment funds for entrepreneurship in Zambia
… This has led to young people engaging in entrepreneurial activities as a means of survival. However, they are faced with difficulties in accessing empowerment funds for entrepreneurship. An exploratory study was conducted in the Lusaka Province of Zambia. The aim of the study was to …
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Enhancing productivity through effective collaborations : the barriers and enablers of collaboration within geographic bioclusters
… an example of organic growth, given its roots in entrepreneurial activities. The Singapore cluster, still in an embryonic state, has a history of organized growth due to the leadership, support, and funding of the Singaporean government. The study of clusters that differ in history of formation …
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The relationship between financial inclusion and entrepreneurship among South African women
… and barriers affecting South African women's entrepreneurial engagement. The findings highlighted a positive correlation between women's entrepreneurial engagement and financial inclusion, implying that the latter can enable the participation of women in entrepreneurial activities. Findings …
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Exploring female representation in the entrepreneurship education curriculum and pedagogy in the further education and training phase
… female learners’ strong academic performance in entrepreneurial-related subjects and their limited participation and success in entrepreneurial activities in South Africa. Female entrepreneurship contributes to economic diversity and growth, highlighting the need for a gender-equitable approach …
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Analysis of social entrepreneurship in Zambia: a case study of female university graduates.
… by the increasing number of women taking up entrepreneurial activities with a social focus. The study was undertaken among female university graduates in Zambia to analyse aspects of social entrepreneurship intention. The emergence of social entrepreneurship as a worthwhile approach for …
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Analysis of social entrepreneurship in Zambia: a case study of female university graduates.
… by the increasing number of women taking up entrepreneurial activities with a social focus. The study was undertaken among female university graduates in Zambia to analyse aspects of social entrepreneurship intention. The emergence of social entrepreneurship as a worthwhile approach for …
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