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Challenges faced by necessity entrepreneurship, the case of Syrian refugees in Jordan

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2020
Purpose This study aims to understand the challenges facing Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Jordan and offers professional support to refugee entrepreneurs, with a view to improve their economic and social status, aid cultural integration and ultimately
Saad Zighan
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Necessity entrepreneurship in Latin America: it´s not that simple

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2019
Entrepreneurship literature takes for granted the motivation dichotomy; however, this simplistic view have been criticised for several studies because it likely does an injustice to entrepreneurs, particularly Latin America (LA) entrepreneurs. This study
Raquel Puente, Carlos Giovanni González Espitia, M. Cervilla   +2 more
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OPPORTUNITY AND NECESSITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF HUMAN CAPITAL

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 2020
Although considerable research has been devoted to the study of the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth, fewer studies have analyzed the effect of the types (opportunity vs necessity) of entrepreneurship on economic growth. Moreover, the latter
D. Rodrigues, Aurora A. C. Teixeira
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Beyond necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship: motivations and aspirations of young entrepreneurs in Uganda

International Development Planning Review, 2012
Enhancing the private sector, and especially entrepreneurship, has become a key feature of development policy in recent years. In many African countries, entrepreneurship is promoted as a way to solve the youth unemployment crisis, but little is known about the experiences of young entrepreneurs.
Langevang, Thilde, Namatovu, Rebecca, Dawa, Samuel   +2 more
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Female entrepreneurship in China: opportunity- or necessity-based?

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2012
The paper investigates the inequalities within entrepreneurship which are hindering Chinese socio-economic development. We take an institutionalist and gender-based approach. We establish the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development and create a historical framework from which we examine contemporary female entrepreneurship.
Warnecke, Tonia, Hernandez, Lucas, Nunn, Nicholas   +2 more
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Women’s Network Resource Acquisition in Informal Rural Entrepreneurship: A Developed View of Opportunity versus Necessity Dichotomy

Journal of Travel Research
This study explores the inherent interdependencies between microfinance social enterprises and two groups of women informal farm entrepreneurs and women informal tourism entrepreneurs in four impoverished rural regions in Iran.
M. Sharifi-Tehrani, Siamak Seyfi, T. Vo‐Thanh, M. Zaman   +3 more
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Occupational choice and entrepreneurship: From necessity to opportunity

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2023
AbstractWe present a simple agency model with a monopolist lender and an individual facing an occupational choice between entering the labor market as a wage worker and starting a self‐managed business. We show that, when the reservation utility is relatively low, the lender may not want to offer any credit contract, so the individual is forced to ...
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Does Necessity Entrepreneurship Really Alleviate Necessity? An Abductive Study

2023
Using an abductive approach, in this paper we explore necessity entrepreneurship (NE) in a marginalized context. Analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data collected from the world’s largest refugee camp – Kutupalong, Bangladesh, we suggest that NE is a multifaceted construct, and that it is not only motivated by immediate existential needs but ...
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A Note on Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our note demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the start-up was founded out of necessity. Our results, based on a representative dataset of 4,568 German start-ups, show that the start-ups of necessity entrepreneurs are
Joern Hendrich Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller, Katrin Ullrich   +3 more
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How psychological perceptions and family dynamics shape necessity- and opportunity-based female entrepreneurship: the role of gender equality

Multinational Business Review
Purpose This paper aims to explore how psychological perceptions and family situations drive women into necessity- or opportunity-based female entrepreneurship (NBFE or OBFE) and the moderating role of gender equality. Design/methodology/approach This
Wei Deng, Qiaozhuan Liang, Wei Wang, Yue Zhang   +3 more
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