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Situating African FinTech in Global Financial Networks
Short Abstract This paper explores the geographical patterns of firm creation and investments in African FinTech and how they have evolved since the emergence of FinTech on the continent. Our findings show waves of investment, specialisation of different FinTech centres and the networks of FinTech capital.
Julien Migozzi, Dariusz Wójcik
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Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello +5 more
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Migrants and the Irish Economy [PDF]
Immigration should be viewed as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a cost to be minimised, according to this report from economist Jim Power and the Integration Centre, an Atlantic grantee.
Jim Power, Péter Szlovak
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Abstract Native speakerism in English language teaching (ELT) has become associated with Whiteness. However, how this association is sustained in everyday practices within China's unique socio‐cultural‐political context remains underexplored. This study examines the raciolinguistic construct of Mubai, a central recruitment criterion in China's ELT ...
Shuling Wang, Raviv Litman
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Entrepreneurship 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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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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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
Immigrant 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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Welsh and immigrant new firms and new firm founders : are they really different?
School of ...
Westhead, Paul
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Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses [PDF]
Objectives The study considers how online home-based businesses offer opportunities for ethnic entrepreneurs to ‘break out’ of the traditional highly competitive and low margin sectors they are often associated with.
Anwar, Naveed, Daniel, Elizabeth
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