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Showing 1 to 20 of 1202 for “"Entrepreneurship."”.
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Essays on Entrepreneurship
… explores the determinants of successful entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial entry. It consists of three chapters.</p> <p>Chapter 1 estimates the effect of regional concentrations of related industrial firms and business owners' cognitive and non-cognitive traits on their business …
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Essays on entrepreneurship
… thesis provides three chapters on the subject of entrepreneurship, two study the role of borrowing constraints and another shows that introducing uncertainty about ability in an occupational choice model without financial frictions can generate many patterns that resemble capital market …
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Microeconometric Essays on Entrepreneurship
… Act mandated reporting. The second paper: Public Entrepreneurship Training for Startup Firms: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey studies the selection decision of small young entrepreneurial firms into start-up firm specific entrepreneurship training. The Kauffman Firm Survey offers a unique …
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Investigation in construction entrepreneurship
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1980.
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Ghanaian entrepreneurship and innovation
This study explores local innovation and entrepreneurship in Ghana. It presents the results of 28 in-person interviews with Ghanaian entrepreneurs who live and work in four cities across Ghana. The interviews detailed the entrepreneurs' business endeavors, backgrounds, and thoughts regarding …
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Open source hardware entrepreneurship
… mitigate risks associated. Open source hardware entrepreneurship can serve as an extreme application of open innovation and user innovation theories in hardware venture creation, and we hope to use this work as a pilot study for the emerging socio-technological phenomenon.
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Social Capital, Structural Holes, and entrepreneurship: A study on refugees entrepreneurship in Kenya
… investigated mobilisation of social capital in entrepreneurship among refugees using a mixed method approach. A survey was administered to 418 entrepreneurs and semi-structured interviews conducted with 24 stakeholders across three locations in Kenya. Through regression analyses of the …
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The role of entrepreneurship education on student entrepreneurship development at the University of Venda
Entrepreneurship is recognised as a tool to reduce unemployment, poverty, and other socio-economic challenges facing South Africa. To respond to these challenges, higher education institutions in South Africa have implemented entrepreneurship courses, training programmes and competitions to promote …
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Visibility of the MIT entrepreneurship ecosystem : MIT undergraduate awareness of on-campus entrepreneurship resources
… culture of innovation and a rich history of entrepreneurship. Over the years, many organizations, programs, centers, courses, and competitions have been created to kindle, foster, and celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit on-campus. Together, these form the MIT entrepreneurial ecosystem. …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and education
… the market. I show that low ability entrants to entrepreneurship should be no more likely to exit self-employment than high ability entrants to self-employment. This is because although low ability entrants will earn less as entrepreneurs, their outside wage in paid employment will also be …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and strategy.
… framework and the judgment-based approach to entrepreneurship, it develops a multi-level perspective linking economic shocks, organizational responses, and managerial decision-making. Across three essays, the research analyzes how exogenous changes influence entrepreneurship at the regional, …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and management
… on financial and institutional determinants of entrepreneurship and the importance of management style. Chapter 1: Direct and Indirect Effects of Cash Transfers on Entrepreneurship In this chapter, I exploit a liquidity shock from a large-scale welfare program in Brazil to investigate the …
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Creditor rights, entrepreneurship, and productivity
The first essay, Creditor Rights and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Fraudulent Transfer Law, examines entrepreneurship following the adoption of modern-day fraudulent transfer laws in the United States. These laws remove the burden of proof from creditors attempting to claw back funds that were …
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Physician Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Massachusetts
… been both signs of a growing interest in entrepreneurship among physicians as well as claims of a paucity of entrepreneurial activity in healthcare more generally, there has been little systematic evidence to inform the extant, type, and drivers of entrepreneurship by physicians. Physician …
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Essays in Entrepreneurship and Finance
This thesis consists of three chapters on entrepreneurship and finance. The first chapter studies how small employers are the origins of entrepreneurs. I find that workers at small employers are more likely to be entrepreneurs in the future and that entrepreneurs who previously worked at successful …
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Refugee entrepreneurship in Malawi: the nexus between social capital and entrepreneurship among refugees in adversity
… to improve their livelihoods by engaging in entrepreneurship in host countries leads to harsh policies including encampment policies that restrict refugees to camps. Despite these restrictions and tough conditions in camps setups many refugees continue to thrive with entrepreneurship. Thus, …
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and the Informal Economy
… Chapter 3 focuses on the relationship between entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and corruption at the U.S. state-level. Specifically, I question the importance of the entrepreneur's choice (for which estimates of shadow economy size serve as a proxy) to participate in the formal or …
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