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Showing 1 to 20 of 1074 for “"entrepreneurs"”.
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Character Strengths of Entrepreneurs
Do seasoned successful entrepreneurs exhibit a blend of unique signature character strengths and persistence compared to the general population? If so, does it matter? In this brief preliminary study, roughly 200 adults (seasoned successful entrepreneurs and expert advisors answering for successful …
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Emotional Intelligence of Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship benefits the individual and society, but it was unclear whether emotional intelligence (EI) predicts entrepreneurial outcomes. New ventures fail at a high rate. A possible factor in the success or failure of small business could be the emotional intelligence (EI) level of the …
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Asian American women entrepreneurs
… also active in Greater Boston's innovation and entrepreneurship communities. This thesis explores the entrepreneurial narratives of eight women whose small-medium enterprises (SMEs) are concentrated in the professional, scientific and technical industries. My focus is on the following questions: …
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Self-Perceptions of Leadership Styles of Ex -Military Entrepreneurs and Civilian Entrepreneurs in Kenya
… elements that can be incorporated in the entrepreneurship training.
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Entrepreneurial Heuristics and Serial Entrepreneurs
This dissertation is comprised of three separate entrepreneurship papers. Paper 1, "Entrepreneurial Heuristics...", found that being mentored, rather than either having extensive higher education or more work experience, was primarily responsible for entrepreneurs acquiring the simplified decision …
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Black entrepreneurs in real estate.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1973. M.Arch.A.S.
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Community of Entrepreneurs in Coworking Space
… phenomenon related to the social context of entrepreneurship—coworking space. Coworking spaces are known for creating a social community of entrepreneurial workforce—entrepreneurs, freelancers, contractors, remote workers, and others. The three essays that form this dissertation collectively …
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Entrepreneurs, Sustainability and the Sharing Economy
… context that shapes (non-)sustainable sharing entrepreneurs’ behavior. The second study's meso-level analysis investigates how sharing entrepreneurs affect other organizations and communities to act more sustainable. Lastly, the third study adopts a micro-level analysis that focuses on …
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English Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs in Montreal
… Adaptation and the Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship theories, as well as 13 studies of immigrant entrepreneur groups in Canada. English Caribbean immigrant entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs were surveyed and compared. The non-entrepreneurs identified many obstacles which prevented …
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Everyday Entrepreneurs: Documenting African Entrepreneurial Journeys
In recent years, stories of African entrepreneurship have become popular online, highlighting the journeys, success and challenges that emerging entrepreneurs experience. However, many of these stories and platforms focus mainly on opportunity entrepreneurs and exclude necessity entrepreneurs who …
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Training needs of pre-venture female entrepreneurs
Few studies on female entrepreneurship have focused on preventure women and their training needs. This study used four years of data collected from a Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in a large mid-western city. The information needs sought by pre-venture females were compared with those of …
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Seeing entrepreneurship : visual ethnographies of embodied entrepreneurs
In the last twenty years, the term entrepreneurship has become of significant importance in political and cultural spheres promulgated as a source of economic growth and a solution to unemployment. While economics has been unable to model entrepreneurship mathematically, governments remain …
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Mississippi Motoring: Mom And Pops And Entrepreneurs
… motoring, travel culture, and Mississippi entrepreneurs. Historical background of roads and the evolution of roadside food supports contemporary oral histories and interviews of entrepreneurs from around the state.
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(Re) Visiting Female Entrepreneurs: An Emancipatory Impulse
This thesis aims to emancipate female entrepreneurs from the metanarrative of economic growth which has created a false dichotomy of successful male entrepreneur versus an unsuccessful female entrepreneur. This aim is pursued through a multidisciplinary and critical inquiry that destabilises this …
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Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in New England area
… to start a whole new life. Some of them became entrepreneurs. This study focused on Chinese new immigrant entrepreneurs in New England area, and analyzed what factors have the most effective impact of the Chinese new immigrants to become an entrepreneur. This is first survey to study the career …
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THE RESILIENCE OF FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
How do female entrepreneurs build resilience in Nigeria? This study proposed an evidence-based female entrepreneurial resilience framework which demonstrates resilience building processes of female entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Previous studies established the value of resilience in enabling …
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Social-environmental Entrepreneurs' Communicative Actions in Communication Networks
Entrepreneurs' communicative plans and actions serve to attract resources to their venture, positioning them for strategic gains. However, there is little understanding of how entrepreneurs perceive, value, navigate, and manage their participation in communication networks. This research finds that …
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Changing society: pioneering women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia.
… role of institutions influencing Saudi female entrepreneurs, and how they became enabled to be social agents and institutional entrepreneurs in a very traditional, family-orientated society - albeit facing pressures to change. In acknowledging the uniqueness of the social-cultural context in …
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Holistice Nurse Entrepreneurs: Their Motivations and Their Charactristics
… medicine. Change is an environment where entrepreneurs thrive and yet there is very little exploration in nursing literature as to what characterizes entrepreneurial nurses, and none exploring holistic nurse entrepreneurs. This phenomenological study explored the motivations for starting a …
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The paths and characteristics of real estate entrepreneurs
What paths have real estate entrepreneurs taken to establish their own firm? Also, what characteristics did they develop and utilize in the process? This thesis gives the unique opportunity to better understand the life of the real estate entrepreneur. Also, this thesis shall add clarity to these …
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