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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011
This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323941
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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2010
This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789311
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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior
Dejardin, Marcus - HAL - 2011
In this chapter, we propose a primer of the treatment that has received in the economic literature the problematic of entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of entrepreneurs between different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278310
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What do business models do? Narratives, calculation and market exploration
Doganova, Liliana; Eyquem-Renault, Marie - HAL - 2009
innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790814
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Customers as Predictors of Rent Returns to Innovation and Small Firms – an exploratory study
Mazzarol, Tim; Reboud, Sophie - HAL - 2005
Small to medium enterprises (SME) are frequently associated with high levels of innovation. However, it is difficult … for such firms to fully assess the merits of a particular innovation. This study examined the risk-return profile of … future investment in innovation by SME with respect to anticipated ‘rent' or financial returns. A survey of highly innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791730