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Leo Paul Dana
Researcher at Dalhousie University
Publications - 435
Citations - 12280
Leo Paul Dana is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Small business. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 401 publications receiving 9872 citations. Previous affiliations of Leo Paul Dana include University of Montpellier & Halifax.
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Human capital, financial strategy and small firm performance: a study of Canadian entrepreneurs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between human capital, financial strategy, and small firm performance in Canadian firms, analysing primary data collected through telephone surveys from 187 start-up owners, finding that bank connections, entrepreneurial experience, internal financing sources, and investment motivations are positively correlated with the performance of small ventures.
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Traditional and Emergent Forms of Global Trading
TL;DR: Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear bring together leading researchers and thinkers in this critical guide to the ongoing, worldwide research shaping the role played by SMEs within today's global economy as mentioned in this paper.
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Sámi reindeer herders in Finland: pulled to community-based entrepreneurship and pushed to individualistic firms
Leo Paul Dana,Jan Åge Riseth +1 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a study of reindeer herding in Finland and found that ethnic Finns simply viewed their entrepreneurship as a means to economic profit and attributed their herding to a "pull" toward cultural tradition, while a frequent finding was that Sami respondents were often pushed into other activities to supplement their otherwise inadequate income derived from community-based herding.
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Decolonizing Development: Perspectives from Indigenous Communities
Bobby Banerjee,Rick Colbourne,Leo Paul Dana,Mary E. Doucette,Joseph Scott Gladstone,Aloysius Marcus Newenham-Kahindi,Ana Maria Peredo,Robert B. Anderson +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore possibilities for Indigenous organizations to become a force for decolonization in business enterprises owned and operated by Indigenous communities, and explore the possibilities for such organizations to be transformed into business enterprises.