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Bridging Entrepreneurial Intention and Action: How Financing Models Shape the Growth of Innovative SMEs in Widening Countries

Administrative Sciences
While entrepreneurship is recognized as a key driver of economic development, barriers such as financing constraints, regulation, and inefficient capital allocation continue to limit its potential, especially in Widening countries.
Ana Kitić, Mladen Radišić, Aleksandar Takači   +2 more
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Animal Spirits in Entrepreneurial Innovation: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

, 2012
This paper proposes and empirically tests a theory of entrepreneurial innovation in order to explain its high degree of concentration in space and time.
Cipollone, Angela, Giordani, Paolo
core  

Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

INVESTMENT CRITERIA SET BY VENTURE CAPITALISTS

Ekonomski Vjesnik, 2015
Different funders, like bankers, business angels or venture capitalists, put the accent on various investment criteria while making investment decisions.
Marija Šimić
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source

The agency of a marmalade machine: Gender, class and mechanical gadgets in the British Kitchen, c.1870–1938

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
wiley   +1 more source

Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
wiley   +1 more source

How do investors invest in crowd-investing? A qualitative study in Mexico

International Entrepreneurship Review, 2019
Objective: The purpose of this paper is to understand for the first time how inexperienced investors invest in high-risk new ventures in Mexico through a crowd-investing platform. Research Design & Methods: The study follows a qualitative approach based
Enrique Wiencke, Pilar Madrazo-Lemarroy, Luz Estela Reyna   +2 more
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source