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Disadvantaged Minorities in Self-Employment
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This article is published in International Journal of Comparative Sociology.The article was published on 1979-01-01. It has received 352 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Disadvantaged.read more
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Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the process of selection into self-employment over the life cycle and the determinants of self employment earnings using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLS) for 1966-1981 and the Current Population Surveys for 1968-1987.
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Survival Chances of Newly Founded Business Organizations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used human capital theory and organizational ecology to explore the success of newly formed firms and found that those businesses that were novel were more likely to survive than those firms that were considered followers.
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Women and Migration: The Social Consequences of Gender
TL;DR: This article reviewed the literature on the neglected role of women in migration and argued that focusing on gender and the family can provide the necessary linkage of micro and macro levels of analyses and contribute to a gendered understanding of the social process of migration.
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Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that self-employment rates of immigrants with origins in the Middle East or neighboring countries tend to have high self-employed rates, while Asian self-employee rates differ substantially across ancestry groups.
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Immigrant and ethnic enterprise in North America
TL;DR: In this article, immigrants and ethnic enterprise in North America are discussed. But the authors focus on the economic aspects of the enterprise and do not consider the social aspects. And they do not discuss the political aspects.
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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
TL;DR: A synthetic polyisoprene rubber latex produced by emulsifying a solution of polyisoperene rubber in an organic solvent with water and removing the solvent from the resulting oil-in-water emulsion is significantly improved with respect to mechanical stability, wet gel strength and dry film strength as mentioned in this paper.
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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
TL;DR: The Theory of Social and Economic Organization as mentioned in this paper is based on Weber's philosophical inquiries into the nature of authority and how it is transmitted, and identifies three types of authority: the charismatic, based on the individual qualities of a leader and reverence for them among his or her followers; the traditional based on custom and usage; and the rational-legal, according to the rule of objective law.
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The Achieving Society
TL;DR: This paper argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.
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The Achieving Society
TL;DR: This article argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.