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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"entrepreneurial activity"”.
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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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The influence and implications of national culture on entrepreneurial activity : a contrastive investigation of Sweden and the United States
… policy makers have embraced the notion of the entrepreneurial economy. While no country completely lacks entrepreneurial activity there are major differences in the level of entrepreneurship between nations. This thesis attempts to explain what leads to such differences by focusing on …
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Comparative study of the productive and unproductive allocation of entrepreneurial efforts
… the likelihood of an individual undertaking entrepreneurial activity of any type while rules and regulations shift entrepreneurial activity toward productive or unproductive behavior. This dissertation integrates the socio-cultural literature with the rules and regulations literature to …
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The Impacts of Owning Private Companies on University Faculty: The Experiences of Biotechnology Faculty and University Administrators in One University
… to university research, an extreme form of entrepreneurial activity. Yet our understanding of how this changes the experiences of the entrepreneurial scientists and administrators is limited. This thesis, based primarily on in-depth interviews with three entrepreneurial biotechnology …
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Competitive Regimes and Entrepreneurial Behavior: The United States Brokerage House Industry, 1965-1996
… focused on how regimes of competition affect entrepreneurial activity in the United States brokerage industry from 1965 to 1996. Changes in the competitive regimes and entrepreneurial activity was identified using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis. On the basis of shifts …
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Kolb Interrupted : An investigation into students' experience of an experiential learning approach to entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurial activity is widely regarded as a primary driver of socio-economic development. Alongside structural and systemic support, entrepreneurship education is a critical factor in improving entrepreneurial activity. While entrepreneurship education initiatives abound, little is understood …
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Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Based Economy: A Spatial Analysis of Great Britain 2008-2010
… of economic growth and development. However, entrepreneurial activity varies significantly across space within countries. This thesis makes an original contribution by examining the determinants of spatial variations in entrepreneurship across sub-regions of Great Britain from 2008-2010. …
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Achieving Enhanced Levels of Human Development Without Waiting on Advances in Economic Development
… micro-level individual or community activities. Entrepreneurial and microfinance activity are two such micro-level activities that have been associated in research with advances in national economic development. Microfinance, particularly microcredit, activities have been associated in research …
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Understanding the International Entrepreneurial Process of Emerging Economy Firms: Evidence from Nigerian SMEs
… economies. The findings of the study depict how entrepreneurial activity from emerging economies to developed economies can involve many sub-activities and processes to achieve opportunity identification, development, and exploitation. This process which appears disruptive is significantly …
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Essays on entrepreneurship, venture capital and innovation
… Entrepreneurship and the Stigma of Failure. Entrepreneurial activity varies substantially across countries and sectors and appears to be related to the stigma of failure. To understand this phenomenon, I present a multiple-equilibrium model based on endogenous stigma of failure. Using private …
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Three Essays on Sustainable Economic Development: Experimental and Empirical Evidence from Financial Markets, the Gambling Industry, and Entrepreneurship
… that influence participation, profitability, and entrepreneurial activity.The first essay examines whether behavioral market design can simultaneously expand stock market participation and reduce investor wealth inequality. Using a controlled laboratory experiment with a 2 × 2 design, the study …
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Essays on entrepreneurship
… constraints are crucial to the understanding of entrepreneurial activity in the United States. However, portfolio data and calibration exercises raise doubts about the importance of borrowing constraints. This thesis provides three chapters on the subject of entrepreneurship, two study the role …
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Inclusive urban centres
… in many South African townships that there is an entrepreneurial activity that supports the livelihood of people within the settlements yet this activity is largely unsupported in legislation and in built infrastructure. The entrepreneurial activity is mainly found in the informal and formal small …
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Subsistência de jovens empreendedores no mercado de trabalho: um estudo de caso do Empreender JP
It becomes clear the growth of entrepreneurial activity in recent years, and the growth of young entrepreneurship in this way is important to understand the attitudes, behaviors and motives leadind to entrepreneurship. Microcredit is a modality of funding for low values, so it is only offered to …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and strategy.
… examines how environmental change shapes entrepreneurial activity, organizational adaptation, and firm-level strategic capabilities. Drawing on the External Enablers framework and the judgment-based approach to entrepreneurship, it develops a multi-level perspective linking economic …
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Essays on macroeconomics and risk premium
… financial stability. An important determinant of entrepreneurial activity in developing countries is the amount of risk the entrepreneur must bear. The second essay, joint with Robert M. Townsend, analyzes the risk-taking behavior of entrepreneurs. Using data from a survey conducted in villages in …
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Entrepreneurship, institutions and economic development : a configurational approach.
… effects on cross-country opportunity entrepreneurial activity (EA). In particular, it examines the effect of formal institutional development on EA depending on differences in informal constraints and economic development (ED). Though acknowledged in part within extant theory, little …
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SIF and the emergence of independent film and video in Sheffield
… regional film and video development policy and entrepreneurial activity in the cultural industries and, for the first time, unveil the neglected history of an independent moving image praxis in South Yorkshire.
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The emerging market for Web-based enterprise software
… but still attractive at around 85%. The entrepreneurial activity in the sector is significant. More than 50% of the companies in the sample were founded in or after 2002, and almost 30% in the last two years. Venture capital continues to be an important source of capital with 36% of the …
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The organisation and economic geographies of marketing and public relations businesses in the West Midlands
… particular knowledge intensive businesses and entrepreneurial activity. By undertaking a whole sector analysis the formation and embeddedness of firms within the tight-knit marketing and PR community are elucidated. Examining acts of entrepreneurship and firm formation highlight the importance …
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