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High-Growth Firms and the Future of the American Economy [PDF]
, 2010 Examines data on the small number of top-performing and young high-growth firms that account for a disproportionate share of job creation. Calls for policies that promote high-growth entrepreneurship, including removing taxes and regulations impeding ...
Dane Stangler
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.A substantial body of anthropological research has investigated how subsistence communities engage with market‐based economies. In this study, we contribute to this body of work by examining adolescent orientations towards intensifying market integration in the Congo Basin.
Sheina Lew‐Levy +12 more
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2019 A growing movement of foreign nationals is settling and starting up businesses in South Africa. Given this fact, there is a need to understand those factors influencing the human capital side of being an immigrant entrepreneur as a basis for coming up ...
Justice Muchineripi +2 more
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Antecedents of immigrants' entrepreneurial intention formation process: an empirical study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Canada. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Mayuto R, Su Z, Mohiuddin M, Fahinde C.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Bourdieuian approaches to the geography of entrepreneurial cultures [PDF]
, 2012 Culture has emerged as an important concept within the entrepreneurship literature to help explain differences in the nature of the entrepreneurship process observed between regions, industries and socio-cultural groups.
Spigel, Ben
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Shrinking cities are increasingly drawing global attention, but urban shrinkage is seldom considered as an enduring structural condition necessitating a move beyond growth‐centric strategies. The focus often remains on mitigating symptoms rather than embracing the broader implications of long‐term decline. Understanding of what drives decision‐
Marjan Marjanović, Johanna Lilius
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Imprenditori immigrati in Italia: il problema della dimensione e dell’efficienza
Quaderni di Sociologia, 2012 The aim of the essay is to propose an operational definition of immigrant entrepreneur and to make a clear distinction between employers and self employed.
Antonio M. Chiesi, Deborah De Luca
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany [PDF]
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany ...
Amelie Constant +2 more
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