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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1504/IJEIM.2016.075297
ISBN	1386-275X
	Measuring entrepreneurship environments in Africa: challenges in using international reports.
	Sheriff, Michael; Muffatto, Moreno; Cooper, Sarah
发表日期	2016-03-10
出处	International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
出版者	Inderscience
出版年	2016
页码	20-44
语种	英语
摘要	Entrepreneurial environments are significant for entrepreneurial activities. Investigating such environments is necessary because of their complexity and dynamism. This work attempted to analyse international reports that measure entrepreneurship environments in Africa in order to identify the challenges faced by researchers when using these datasets. The reports or indices selected for the analysis usually measure the different dimensions of the entrepreneurship environment. A combination of these datasets provided a thorough coverage of entrepreneurship environments because of the wide spectrum of indicators whilst, a comparison revealed their convergence and divergence. The main challenges were: 1) not all of countries were included in most of the datasets; 2) the survey periods differed making it difficult to conduct longitudinal studies when comparing different countries. The findings suggested ways and means by which such challenges could be mitigated so that scholars, practitioners and institutions could have improved datasets measuring entrepreneurship environments in Africa.
关键词	entrepreneurship environments, entrepreneurial activities, international reports, Africa, measurement
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/83499/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468673
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sheriff, Michael,Muffatto, Moreno,Cooper, Sarah. Measuring entrepreneurship environments in Africa: challenges in using international reports.. 2016.