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Prior business experience, entrepreneurial intentions, and intention implementation among refugees: an application of the theory of planned behavior

open access: yesFuture Business Journal
Although refugees are often perceived as a burden to the socioeconomic fabric in some places, entrepreneurship offers a promising avenue for refugees to participate in the economy, secure decent work, and achieve self-reliance.
Martin Mabunda Baluku   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative field‐scale assessment of TLUD and Kon‐Tiki biochar systems: agronomic performance and net CO2e‐based techno‐economics

open access: yesBiofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract Post‐harvest agricultural residues in Latin America are commonly underutilized, leading to greenhouse gas emissions and lost opportunities for bio‐based value creation. This study tests the hypothesis that decentralized, farmer‐scale pyrolysis technologies can deliver comparable agronomic benefits while exhibiting distinct techno‐economic and ...
Juan F. Saldarriaga   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prior Experience and Export Performance: The Missing Link of Global Vision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Despite the scholarly interest in the prior experience of entrepreneurs expressed by the field of International Entrepreneurship, empirical investigation linking prior experience with international performance leads to inconclusive and conflicting ...
Faroque, Anisur R   +3 more
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The underground economy and the underdevelopment trap [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
A general equilibrium model is proposed which assumes that firms hire both official and unregistered workers as imperfect substitutes, that entrepreneurs differ in their ability to increase the efficiency of official labour, and that this ability is due ...
Carillo, Rosaria, Pugno, Maurizio
core   +1 more source

Career motivations and perceptions of teaching of 16–19‐year‐olds in England and Wales

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study provides an understanding of career‐related motivations of 16–19‐year‐olds in schools and A‐level colleges in England and Wales. The 672 participants (62% women) were asked to complete a modified version of the Motivations for Career Choice and the Persistence Research in Science and Engineering scales and provide comments on
Sophie Thompson‐Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female and Migrant Entrepreneurship in SOS Children’s Villages in the Lambayeque Region, Peru

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences
This quantitative research analyzes the entrepreneurial competencies of in-migrant women in the Children’s Village of the Lambayeque Region. With a sample of 79 women, 39 Peruvian and 40 Venezuelan, online surveys and observation forms were operated for ...
Silvia Lourdes Vidal-Taboada   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Gender Gap in Start-up Funding: The Role of Investors\u27 Benevolent Sexism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Past research has consistently shown that female-led ventures tend to receive less funding than male-led ventures, but the reasons for this gap are unclear.
Nguyen, Nhu
core   +1 more source

Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Poverty Alleviation to Access Education and Build Aspirations: The Impact of Shift-Persist Strategies on Entrepreneurship Opportunity Development Among Lower Social Class

open access: yesSAGE Open
Entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid has profound implications for economic development in impoverished regions. Building upon Timmons’ three-factor theory of entrepreneurship and the resource conservation theory, this study adopts the transition ...
Aiwen Niu, Changchun Gao, Chenhui Yu
doaj   +1 more source

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