Leo Paul Dana

TL;DR: The primary motivation of self-employment among the Amish is neither profit nor prestige, but rather the maintenance of cultural values, separately from mainstream society such as to emphasise humility over pride as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors conducted an exploratory field study, an inquiry into self-employment in Churchill, Manitoba and found that the proportion of entrepreneurs among certain ethnic minorities is considerably higher than in Canadian mainstream society wherein anglophones and francophones make up the majority of the population.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of EU industrial policy for rural and peripheral areas is investigated and the authors hypothesise that the EU policy framework reinforces certain economic disadvantages for rural locations at a time when the changing composition of rural economies offers the potential for new dynamics in local development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a synopsis of the state of entrepreneurship in some Balkan countries and examine the bazaar, the firm type economy, and a variety of forms of enterprise that exist in the parallel economy, including informal economic activity, internal economic activity with no transaction, and covert economic activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impacts of social media on the Pakistani consumers' buying behavior, which could be reflected in either complex buying, variety seeking, dissonance reducing or habitual buying.