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Financial Inclusion Access and Female Labour Participation in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Moderating Role of Institutional Quality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between financial inclusion, institutional quality, and female labor force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa over the period 1990–2023. Using panel data for 43 countries and employing OLS, FGLS, and dynamic GMM estimators, the analysis examines whether access to financial institutions and financial markets ...
Joshua Chukwuma Onwe, Busra Agan Celik, Sodiq Olaide Bisiriyu, Odunayo Magret Olarewaju   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribution of the Baobab Value Chain to Equitable Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Non‐timber forest products (NTFPs) are central to income diversification and livelihood resilience in Sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the welfare implications of baobab commercialisation remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analysing the contribution of the baobab value chain to household income, poverty reduction, and income ...
Frederick Frimpong, Emmanuel Donkor, Victor Owusu, Dietrich Darr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local labor market frictions and platform‐based entrepreneurship

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Building on prior research about the heterogeneous impact of labor shocks on individuals' propensity to start businesses, we explore how local labor market frictions affect individuals' selection into platform‐based entrepreneurship.
Ruiqing Cao, Yifan Lyu
wiley   +1 more source

New venture team stability and long‐run organizational growth

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We explore the impact of new venture team (NVT) stability on long‐run organizational growth. With an instrumental variable design, we leverage a matched employer‐employee dataset of all Danish new ventures from 1981 to 1997. We find strong evidence that NVT stability has a positive effect on organizational growth in employees ...
Jerry Guo, Anders Frederiksen, Lars Frederiksen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The power of expressed humility: Early stage investors' reaction to humble entrepreneurs

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We examine how entrepreneur‐expressed humility affects early stage investors' willingness to fund new ventures. In pitching contexts where investors rely on relational cues and implicit prototypes of entrepreneurs, we theorize three distinct pathways through which expressed humility shapes funding decisions. First, building on
Laurent Vilanova, Ivana Vitanova
wiley   +1 more source

Shaping expectations, losing flexibility: A study of CEO promises as strategic communication tools

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary CEO promises are powerful but understudied communication tools. We develop a dual‐mechanism framework theorizing that while CEO promises elevate stakeholder expectations, they simultaneously constrain strategic flexibility. We argue that CEO promise‐making is shaped by two competing pressures: making more promises when the ...
Majid Majzoubi, Alex Murray, William J. Mayew   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thinking and feeling about novelty: How cognition and emotion shape investment in novel ideas

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While prior research on the strategic framing of innovation highlights the cognitive mechanisms underlying novelty evaluation, we know little about the corresponding emotional mechanisms. Drawing on appraisal theory, construal level theory, and the literature on emotions, we theorize two distinct appraisal‐emotion pathways through which the ...
Matthew P. Mount, Henry Tue Le, Gary Bowman, Christopher Golding   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit theories of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intentions: the roles of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and person-entrepreneurship fit. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Pan H, Du K, Zhou J, Zhang L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Abortion restriction laws and mobility of scientists

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We track the enactment of targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws in the United States and analyze 4.98 million person‐year mobility records for 535,568 biomedical scientists from 1990 to 2018. Our estimations reveal a 0.8–1.6 percentage‐point increase in scientists' relocation probability after states enacted ...
Beril Yalcinkaya, Waverly W. Ding
wiley   +1 more source

Weaving the future: Maturity and key factors in women's cultural entrepreneurship in Colombia's artisan sector. [PDF]

PLoS One
Mendivil-Hernández P, Alvis-Arrieta J, Garcés-Prettel M.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source