...Jaiandra Guimarães; Cristina Fernandes; Pedro Mota Veiga; Veland Ramadani Purpose This research aims to study the impacts of systemic entrepreneurship on digital transformation and verify the moderating effects of the level of economic development on this relationship. Design/methodology...

...Lukman Raimi; Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud Purpose Views on migrant entrepreneurship are mixed and require further research. This study aims to examine the impact of migrant entrepreneurship on economic development in both the host and home countries. Specifically, the study examines the significant...

..., such as female entrepreneurs. Practical implications Several practical implications were identified regarding education and media coverage. Since respondents prioritize the economic development factors over sustainability factors, a media campaign could be developed and executed to increase sustainability...

... generation to increase local control and economic development. We then extended the search to non-scholarly journals and the internet and included stakeholders’ perspectives on renewable electricity generation and the future of remote communities’ electrical systems as expressed in energy conferences...

..., this article provides an account of a unique and successful sustainable enterprise, initiated and run at the grassroots level, which serves as a model for future economic development. In addition, it lists the features that are most relevant for the ongoing success of the enterprise and suggests how a new...

... the perceptions of key stakeholders and decision makers regarding the resources required for developing knowledge industries such as biotechnology. United States of America Biotechnology Economic development Resources Industry clusters Ecosystems In the twenty‐first century, major biotechnological...

... elsewhere. Practical implications The paper reveals that legitimising the hidden enterprise culture in deprived rural communities could be an important but so far untapped means of promoting enterprise and economic development. Originality/value Evaluates the extent of informal entrepreneurship...

... Developing countries Economic development International cooperation Project management Taiwan Belize Development assistance constitutes one of the major international operations of the second half of the twentieth century. Within that time development assistance has been provided in a variety...

...Tony Tremblay Purpose What is the role of culture in economic development? Is there any hope for the local in the larger frame of the global? The purpose of this paper is to examine the role that culture plays in economic development and sustainability. To do that, the author examines the values...

... by Lyson, emphasizes more localized economic development as well as social equity and environmental sustainability. Locally controlled enterprises, craft production, small businesses, producer and service co‐operatives, community‐based land trusts, and smaller, family owned or alternative‐model farms...

... upon which they live. Leo Paul Dana can be contacted at: leo.dana@canterbury.ac.nz © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Natural gas Natural gas extraction Economic development Ethnic groups Canada In 1870, the Hudson's Bay Company sold Rupert's Land and the North‐Western...

... it: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Education Ukraine Economic development Business enterprise Training Enterprise education initiatives are increasingly being developed and introduced into a range of different geographical and political environments (European Commission...

... business participation literature (Waldinger, 1996, 1997). Entrepreneurship Social studies Ethnography Economic development The term “indigenous people” has no universal definition. But most definitions encompass cultural groups that have an historical continuity with a region before its...

... to Inuvik for work. “To get money for school,” said one. “There is lots of money here,” said another. A librarian from Edmonton told us, “I am making lots of money here to save for my future.” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Canada Ethnic minorities Energy sources Economic...

... common responses from the businesses. Tourism Entrepreneurship Small enterprises Economic development Rural areas Canada Imagine if you will: you run a small café located on a beach at the half way point on a five to seven day hiking trail along an island's coast. There are no roads...

... Group Publishing Limited 2007 Partnership Business support services Small to medium‐sized enterprises Economic development Canada The knowledge‐based economy, deregulation and globalization and the advent of e‐commerce have brought many opportunities for business development within...

... and community development processes as collective entrepreneurial efforts. A 3D model proposes means of structuring contemporary public discourses on local economic development. A bridging “virtual” logic is suggested that crafts and enacts localised entrepreneurial opportunities by bridging the territorial...