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Flying high or crashing down: Pre‐entry knowledge, post‐entry learning, and the distribution of startup performance

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We examine variation in high‐technology startups' performance based on founders' pre‐entry experiences by developing a formal model and using confidential employee‐employer linked microdata from the United States to examine the empirical consistency of the model propositions.
Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin Campbell, Seth Carnahan, Joonkyu Choi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Essential Resources that African Immigrant Entrepreneurs Access to Start Up their Business in South Africa

Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a crucial element of economic growth and development, and immigrant entrepreneurs make a substantial contribution to the economy of the host country.
Bernard Lama Ngota, Elroy Eugene Smith, Ayanda Pamella Deliwe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Income Mobility, Automation, and Occupational Licensing

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological change has long been tied with distributional concerns due to displacement against certain skills on labor markets. Short‐run dislocations could create scarring in the long run. For example, shifts against less skilled workers with children could limit their ability to improve the inter‐generational income mobility of their ...
Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons, Pradyot Sharma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors impeding African immigrant entrepreneurs’ progression in selected small and medium enterprises: Evidence from a local municipality in South Africa

South African Journal of Business Management, 2018
This study examines factors inhibiting African immigrant entrepreneurs’ small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) growth in a municipality of South Africa. Understanding these factors is important to stakeholders as this is an area that plagues much of the ...
Bernard L. Ngota, Eric E. Mang'unyi, Sookdhev Rajkaran   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Career Sustainability Profiles of Self‐Initiated Expatriates and Associated Person‐Related Factors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasingly volatile global working environment poses particular challenges for self‐initiated expatriates (SIEs), who often lack formal organizational support and must manage their careers independently. However, research on SIEs has largely focused on single international experiences or specific stages of the expatriation cycle, thereby
Shaofang Zong, Sandaruu Jayawardhana, Vesa Suutari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Place to Platform: Extended Global Cities Theory for Transnational Cultural Diffusion

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates how global city characteristics shape the acceptance of non‐mainstream cultural goods—focusing on K‐pop—as they diffuse across digital platforms. While prior research emphasizes fandom, soft power or media strategies, this research highlights the role of urban infrastructure in cultural globalization.
Jeoung Yul Lee, Jooyoung Kwak, Shinwon Noh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship [PDF]

Review of Economics of the Household, 2009
More than ½ of the foreign born workforce in the US have no schooling beyond high school and about 20% of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10% of these low-skilled immigrants are self-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes the returns ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Financial Education in Young Adults and Financial Literacy: A Review of the Literature in Canada and the United States*

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 47-78, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Professional accounting bodies in Canada and the United States, and throughout the world, have funded programs to improve financial literacy for many years. This ongoing interest stems from the expected benefits of improved financial behavior for individuals, society, and financial markets.
Folasade Adesina, Carla Carnaghan, James Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relational Wellbeing Amongst Care‐Experienced Young People in Transition in the Context of Covid 19

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Care‐experienced young people typically negotiate the transition to adulthood at a younger age than their peers in the general population and with less reliable access to support. Concerns have been raised that Covid 19 exacerbated the challenges they faced and widened the ‘care‐gap’.
Emily R. Munro, Seana Friel, Amy Lynch
wiley   +1 more source