The psychology of entrepreneurship: Action and process

M Frese, MM Gielnik - Annual Review of Organizational …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the research on the psychology of entrepreneurship of the last decade. We focus
on two key topics in entrepreneurship research: action and process. Combining action and …

Firm-level upgrading in develo** countries

E Verhoogen - Journal of Economic Literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
In principle, firms in develo** countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

Oil price uncertainty and enterprise total factor productivity: Evidence from China

X Ren, C **, R Lin - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
Global oil price uncertainty may affect the enterprise total factor productivity (TFP).
Considering the unbalanced relationship between the rapid growth in the Chinese economy …

Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business in West Africa

F Campos, M Frese, M Goldstein, L Iacovone… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Standard business training programs aim to boost the incomes of the millions of self-
employed business owners in develo** countries by teaching basic financial and …

Small business training to improve management practices in develo** countries: re-assessing the evidence for 'training doesn't work'

D McKenzie - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Despite the popularity of business training among policy-makers, its use has faced
increasing scepticism. Most of the first randomized experiments could not detect statistically …

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on micro, small, and medium enterprises in Asia and their digitalization responses

A Takeda, HT Truong, T Sonobe - Journal of Asian Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Soon after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments began extending
financial and other forms of support to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and …

The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward

D Scur, R Sadun, J Van Reenen… - Oxford Review of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Understanding how differences in management 'best practices' affect organizational
outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of …

Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from a business plan competition

D McKenzie - American Economic Review, 2017 - aeaweb.org
Almost all firms in develo** countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of
one. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs, and can public policy help identify them …

Competition and entry in agricultural markets: Experimental evidence from Kenya

LF Bergquist, M Dinerstein - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
African agricultural markets are characterized by low farmer revenues and high consumer
food prices. Many have worried that this wedge is partially driven by imperfect competition …

[LIBRO][B] At your service?: The promise of services-led development

G Nayyar, M Hallward-Driemeier, E Davies - 2021 - books.google.com
Manufacturing-led development has provided the traditional model for creating jobs and
prosperity. But in the past three decades the conventional pattern of structural transformation …