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Local Networks and New Business Formation
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New business formation is a key driver of regional transformation and development. While we know that a region's attractiveness for new businesses depends on its resources, infrastructure, and human capital, we know little about the role of local business networks in promoting or impeding the birth of new firms.
Lena Füner +3 more
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Effects of Immigration on Intra-Industry Trade: A logit analysis [PDF]
This study estimates the effects of the immigration stock, as well as those of immigrants’ characteristics, such as having the same language as that of the host country and the level of qualification or entrepreneurship, on Portuguese intra-industry ...
Horácio Faustino, Isabel Proença
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We analyse the behaviour of multinational enterprises (MNEs) within a host nation – Australia – during deglobalization (1914–79). Deglobalization is often portrayed as a drastic event to which MNEs respond swiftly, probably through withdrawal from host countries.
Pierre Van der Eng +4 more
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Welsh and immigrant new firms and new firm founders : are they really different?
, 1988 School of ...
Westhead, Paul
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Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
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The persistence of self-employment across borders: new evidence on legal immigrants to the United States [PDF]
, 2007 Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant’s country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of ...
Jaeger, D.A. +2 more
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Outnumbered. Quantification and Reactivity Inside Street‐Level Organizations
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, the amount of quantitative data in general and performance indicators specifically within street‐level organizations has increased immensely. Although quantitative data is often perceived as information about and for practice, it must also be seen as part of practice itself.
Leif Tøfting Kongsgaard
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Education SciencesEntrepreneurship education is crucial in fostering and supporting entrepreneurial intentions among young people. However, many factors, such as immigrant background, are associated with whether youth aspire to an entrepreneurial career.
Rekar Abdulhamed +2 more
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Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.This study draws on interviews with 50 sociology and business professors across two private and five public American universities, and proposes a novel “Merit‐Fit‐Diversit” framework to show how narratives of merit, fit, and diversity emerge at different evaluation stages of tenure‐track job candidates. The evaluation produces inequality because: merit
Leping Wang
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Immigrant entrepreneurs' survival seeking via financial strategies
Insights into Regional DevelopmentImmigrant entrepreneurs are known to face challenges securing funding from conventional sources, prompting them to devise alternative strategies. Assuming bootstrapping is a method for generating capital without incurring debt or relinquishing equity ...
Philemon Nji Kum +3 more
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