Business Ownership and Self-Employment in Developing Economies: The Colombian Case

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo Mondragon-Velez ◽  
Ximena Pena
Keyword(s):  
Developing Economies ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Self Employment

Innovative Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-215
Author(s):  
Saša Petković
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Modified Model ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Career Option ◽  
Banja Luka ◽  
The University

The education system at all levels in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in an emerging and small open transitional economy is still insufficiently focused on strengthening the entrepreneurial spirit of young people, as well as encouraging young people to self-employment as a career option. The purpose of the research is to analyze the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of University of Banja Luka (UNIBL) and to model the future contours of a reformed modern medium-sized public university in small developing economies, with the focus on building campuses as entrepreneurial ecosystems. From empirical research carried out in 2018 by using a factor and correlation analysis, it can be concluded that UNIBL does not have the characteristics of an entrepreneurial university and that it is necessary to transform the university. A modified model of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the University of Chicago adapted to small transition emerging economies was proposed.

THE ROLE AND SOURCES OF AGENCY AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT OVER THE LIFE COURSE: MICRO-ENTREPRENEURS IN KAMPALA, UGANDA

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850020 ◽  
Author(s):  
FABIAN SCHOLTES ◽  
DANIEL NEFF ◽  
FLORIAN LAMPE
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Entrepreneurial Success ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Micro And Small Enterprises ◽  
The Life Course

In most developing economies, micro and small enterprises (MSE) and self-employment provide the majority of employment and the main source of income. However, MSE’s potentials often remain exploited and there are high rates of churning. To better understand the limited success of entrepreneurship in developing economies, this paper looks at how entrepreneurs have and use agency and how this relates to their entrepreneurial success. Empirically, we use life history interviews with micro-entrepreneurs in Kampala, Uganda. Conceptually, we draw on Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach, which in regard to agency, emphasizes people’s ambitions, reflected choices, and the various factors that influence how people derive options and agency from available resources. Our results suggest a stronger differentiation of entrepreneurs beyond the ‘necessity vs. opportunity’ dichotomy. This concerns entrepreneurs’ motivations and ambitions, their collective transformative potential and the question of which choices under which restrictions should be conceived of as entrepreneurial agency. Most of the entrepreneurs have and make choices beyond economic survival; self-employment is not just a last resort. It depends on business opportunities not as drivers but as occasions; it may rest on innovative means to access common businesses (rather than on innovative businesses); and it may be directed at sufficiency rather than growth.

Re-embedding the ethnic business agenda

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Jones ◽  
Monder Ram
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Ethnic Business ◽  
Self Employment

There has been a flurry of interest from academics and policy-makers alike in the growing phenomenon of ethnic minority entrepreneurship. Despite theoretical advances, there is a lingering tendency to isolate ethnic minority enterprise from the context in which it operates. This article argues for a re-embedding of ethnic minority owned firms in a broader, and longer established, tradition of small business ownership. A more `integrated' analysis is required for an adequate exposition of the different trajectories of ethnic minorities in self-employment, and also for the growing number of policy-makers engaged in supporting such businesses.

scholarly journals Agricultural Development And The Role Of Women's Self- Employment In Pakistan

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Rummana Zaheer ◽  
Saman Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Nadeemullah
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Self Employment

Pakistan aimed to achieve the target of 5.5% of GDP growth for the fiscal year 2015-16, of which 3.9% is expected to catch from the agricultural sector. In the economy, about 42.3% of the total employment is attributed by the agricultural sector, of which about 72.7% is contributed by the 48.96% of the total population, the WOMEN. Female as first-line labor force never receive the consideration of their actual contribution in the development on national basis. Like other developing economies of the world, Pakistan must to focus to expose and utilize the potential of the women labor force in agriculture. The discussion on the agricultural development of Pakistan with reference to women's self-employment is done in this study. Along review of literature and empirical studies, to facilitate the discussion and conclusion, annual time series data from the period of 1985 to 2015 under the regression analysis is taken. The variables taken, to discuss the strength and nature of association with the agricultural development of Pakistan by selfemployment of women, are gross domestic product of agriculture, literacy rate of women, women employed in agriculture and domestic credit disbursement to agriculture sector. The study expects the significant result withal positive association of variables to the development of the economy.

scholarly journals SELF-EMPLOYMENT AS AN ECONOMIC ADAPTATION FORM OF THE RUSSIA AND KAZAKHSTAN REGIONS POPULATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-23
Author(s):  
S. V. Doroshenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
The Self ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Depth Analysis

The scale of changes in the current stage of social development actualizes the study of various adaptation models and mechanisms. The main purpose of the study is a comparative analysis of the self-employed form of the Russia and Kazakhstan population adaptation, as well as the identification of factors affecting self-employment. The methods of normative, comparative, statistical, correlation and regression analysis were used. It is determined that self-employment by a combination of such characteristics as risk, independence, income, tax payment is a form of the adaptation entrepreneurial model, which is more typical for developing economies or unstable periods. It is revealed that the cross-country comparative analysis has certain limitations due to different regulatory approaches to the allocation of the self-employed category. Comparative studies require taking into account the contextual component, and they also need to be supplemented with the study of factors affecting self-employment. The study novelty is to identify demographic and economic factors affecting self-employment, the assessment of which on the example of the Kazakhstan regions was the regression analysis task. The information base was the Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Kazakhstan Republic data. The study was conducted in the R software environment. The assessment results showed that the choice of self-employed form is directly influenced by age, gender, place of residence, unemployment, the opposite — labor costs, stability conditions. These conclusions should be taken into account when forming state support measures. The prospects for further research are largely determined by the level of statistical and other information about self-employed citizens. In this regard, it seems promising for Kazakhstan to continue research with an emphasis on certain categories of the self-employed, analysis of the influence of various factors. For Russia today, the use of sociological surveys is preferable, and the formation of a statistical base over time will allow for a more in-depth analysis of the influence factors.

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