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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"business start‐up"”.
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Business start-up dilemma: support nascent entrepreneurs or deliver contracts?
… is an independent and critical assessment of the Business Link Start-up Service (BLSS) in the creation of new ventures in the East Midlands. The BLSS was part of the region’s £70m annual investment in business support (2007-10). THE BLSS was delivered in the five counties of the East Midlands …
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Applying project risk management principles to manage business start-up risk : a proposed training tool
Generally, it is accepted that small businesses are becoming increasingly important in terms of employment, wealth creation, and the development of innovation in the global economy. Unfortunately, many small businesses fail before reaching maturity, mainly due to inadequate entrepreneurial skills …
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Entrepreneurial self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and entrepreneurial intention as antecedents of nascent necessity-entrepreneur business start-up behaviour in South Africa: a longitudinal study.
… intention as antecedents to entrepreneurial start-up behaviour. The research participants were South African nascent necessity-entrepreneurs. Theoretical foundations for the research are derived from Ajzen’s (1991) theory of planned behaviour. The research design involved a repeated measures …
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Collective resource mobilisation for economic survival within the Turkish speaking communities in London
This study aims to generate insights into the business start-up and maintenance activities of Kurdish and Turkish business owners in catering and retail sectors in North London by utilizing a new theoretical approach influenced by Charles Tilly’s (1978) collective resource mobilisation theory. The …
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(In)visible entrepreneurs: creative enterprise in the urban music economy
… movement and migration is the geographical starting point for the project. Over a five-year period from 2007 – 2012, ethnographic field research was carried out in London and Ayia Napa, Cyprus. Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants in the sector. In addition, …
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Equity planning and community economic development : the case of Côte des Neiges-Notre Dame de Grâce
… to better meet the needs of marginalised groups and communities. This thesis provides an analysis of the district that identifies marginalised communities according to social and economic factors, within the district of Côte des Neiges-Notre Dame de Grâce in Montreal, and provides an …
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No soy conformista: reassessing necessity and opportunity motivations for micro entrepreneurship in Lima, Peru
… as an activity willfully undertaken to seize a business opportunity or reluctantly performed as a last resort in the face of a weak and/or inaccessible labor market. This schema purports that an entrepreneur’s disposition is fixed at the moment of business start-up, and is indicative of future …
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Exploring first-time nascent entrepreneurs’ on-going entrepreneurial opportunity recognition : a case study of London Metropolitan University’s preincubator
… research question: how do pre-incubator supported nascent entrepreneurs recognise entrepreneurial opportunities? The objectives of this study were: (1) to explore the process by which they come up with opportunity ideas; (2) to explore behavioural actions that shape opportunity ideas into …
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The Influences of Institutional Environment on Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation and Venture Creation among Nigerian Youths
… What influences individual entrepreneur to business start-up remains an enduring issue of interest in academic research on entrepreneurship. Recent studies suggest that the institutional context plays a key role in influencing individual behaviour, as well as in facilitating entrepreneurial …
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Female entrepreneurship in Nigeria: an investigation.
… 41 percent of the female adult population set up new businesses in developing economies. However, these females owning businesses in developing economies generally exhibit limited aspirations for growth, with 84.6 percent of the female entrepreneurs indicating that they expect to add fewer than …
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The pedagogy and practice of real estate anagement in Nigeria: entrepreneurial perspectives
… country takes a top-down approach in which basic business start-up skills are taught to all students in a generic course irrespective of their specific disciplines. At the moment no consideration has been given to embedding entrepreneurial skills within the specific disciplines. This approach does …
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The pedagogy and practice of real estate management in Nigeria : Entrepreneurial perspectives.
… country takes a top-down approach in which basic business start-up skills are taught to all students in a generic course irrespective of their specific disciplines. At the moment no consideration has been given to embedding entrepreneurial skills within the specific disciplines. This approach does …
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An Investigation into the Learning Journey of Graduate Entrepreneurs
… phenomenological research, focuses specifically upon the subjective learning experiences of fifteen graduate entrepreneurs in South Wales. The investigation shows that, since the inception of research into the field of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, academics can neither agree on a …
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Business start-ups and the effect of coaching programs
… growth. Hence, governments have an interest in supporting and promoting entrepreneurial activities. Start-up subsidies, which have been analyzed extensively, only aim at mitigating the lack of financial capital. However, some entrepreneurs also lack in human, social, and managerial capital. One …