scholarly journals DIASPORA NETWORKS, NON-ECONOMIC REMITTANCES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM SOME ECONOMIES IN LATIN AMERICA

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550005 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIR KSHETRI ◽  
DIANA ROJAS-TORRES ◽  
MARLENY CARDONA ACEVEDO
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Diaspora Networks

Diaspora networks' non-economic remittances in the forms of social, political, cultural and technical contributions to their homeland play important roles in entrepreneurship and economic development. In this paper, we examine the effects of such remittances on entrepreneurship development in economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We analyze how factors such as migrants' skills and education and characteristics of the host country are likely to affect non-economic remittances and their contribution to entrepreneurship and economic development. We offer some examples of initiatives taken in the home country and the host country to maximize the potential non-economic remittances and their impacts on entrepreneurship development in the home country. A key lesson and take-away that we can gain from entrepreneurially successful efforts of some economies is that the primary focus of diaspora policies need to be centered on utilizing various forms of non-economic remittances in stimulating the quantity and quality of entrepreneurial activity.

scholarly journals Cultural Generalists and Cultural Specialists: Examining International Experience Portfolios of Subsidiary Executives in Multinational Firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 384-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marketa Rickley
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Home Country ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Institutional Distance ◽  
International Experiences ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Relationship

On the basis of the observation that today’s executives increasingly possess significant international experiences, this study of foreign subsidiary executive staffing strategies looks beyond the local/expatriate dichotomy and shifts the theoretical and empirical focus from executive nationality to a more nuanced examination of subsidiary executives’ international experience portfolios. The intended contribution of this study is to explore the relationship between home country–host country institutional differences and the quantity and quality of subsidiary executives’ previous international experience. I draw on executive cognition theory and the literature on international experience to hypothesize that variety and specificity of previous educational and professional international experiences facilitate subsidiary executives’ abilities to manage liabilities of foreignness arising from institutional distance. The findings indicate a positive relationship between home country–host country institutional distance and the presence of subsidiary executives with higher duration, count, and variety of international experiences. However, the findings provide no statistical evidence of higher levels of institutional distance being associated with a higher presence of subsidiary executives with specific international experiences that are relevant to the home country–host country pair.

scholarly journals SCOPE OF PROMOTING INNOVATIONS IN RURAL ENTREPRENEURS AND ARTISANS IN WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT,ANDHRA PRADESH

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 6090-6095
Author(s):  
Dr.K. Narendra Kumar, Dr.K. Ganga Raju
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Village Level ◽  
Rural Entrepreneurship ◽  
Development Factor ◽  
Job Opportunities

Rural Entrepreneurship development set as A challenge in this scenario of globalization. 68.84 % of people live in rural areas of India, according to the 2011 Census. People in rural areas are suffering from unemployment and inadequate infrastructure facilities that can be addressed through rural entrepreneurs' growth. "Rural entrepreneurship can be defined as village-level entrepreneurship such as farming, business and acts as a powerful economic development factor." But these rural entrepreneurs are suffering from a number of problems, such as fear of risk, lack of capital, illiteracy and urban entrepreneurial rivalry. By providing job opportunities to citizens in cities, rural entrepreneurs raise the quality of life and buying power of people. In the sense of rural growth in India, this paper is an effort to explain the problems and challenges of rural entrepreneurship, artisans  and potential suggestions to address the problems.

scholarly journals L’America Latina: tra nuovo nazionalismo e secolarismo

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto G. Bochatey
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Modern Biology ◽  
Ethical Pluralism ◽  
Descriptive Ethics ◽  
Latin America And Caribbean ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Cultural Reality

Il pluralismo etico della società civile moderna considera, in genere, buono tutto quel che è autorizzato dalle leggi realizzate democraticamente e considera cattivo il contrario. Ciò vale anche per l’America Latina ed i Caraibi? Come vengono percepite le leggi in questi Paesi? Il contributo tenta di rispondere a questi interrogativi. La risposta è che è assente una critica e uno studio oggettivo e ragionato su quali interventi dell’Uomo nel campo della biologia moderna, della ricerca, della medicina, del riconoscimento di certi valori indiscutibili siano eticamente leciti. Molti di questi ambiti non sono regolati da leggi e in alcuni casi non sono nemmeno conosciuti dalla popolazione. I bioeticisti dell’America Latina e dei Carabi devono essere, dunque, attenti alla realtà di quei popoli senza applicare teorie elaborate in altri contesti. In altri termini, un’etica descrittiva non è sufficiente, ma occorre far riferimento alla realtà oggettiva e culturale della persona, al fine di promuovere il progresso scientifico ed il miglioramento della qualità della vita. ---------- The ethical pluralism of the modern civil society considers, generally, as good all that is authorized by the laws democratically realized and it considers the contrary as bad. Is this also equivalent in Latin America and the Caribbean? How are the laws perceived in these Countries? The contribution tries to answer to these questions. The answer is that a criticism and an objective and reasoned study is absent on what interventions of the Man in the field of the modern biology, of the search, of the medicine, of the recognition of certain indisputable values is ethically permissible. Many of these circles are not regulated by laws and in some cases they are not even known by the population. The bioethicists of Latin America and Caribbean have to be, therefore, careful to the reality of that people without applying theories elaborated in other contexts. In other terms, a descriptive ethics is not enough, but it is necessary to make reference to the objective and cultural reality of the person, with the purpose to promote the scientific progress and the improvement of the quality of life.

scholarly journals A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Leer ◽  
Florencia López Bóo ◽  
Ana Pérez Expósito ◽  
Christine Powell
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Home Visit ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
The Caribbean

Transnational Entrepreneurship: Determinants of Firm Type and Owner Attributions of Success

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1023-1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Sequeira ◽  
Jon C. Carr ◽  
Abdul A. Rasheed
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽  
Primary Success ◽  
Firm Type ◽  
Transnational Entrepreneurship

Building on a typology of transnational firm types, developed by Landolt, Autler, and Baires in 1999, we examine whether immigrant attitudes toward the host country and their degree of embeddedness in the home country can predict the specific type of transnational enterprise that an immigrant is likely to begin. We also investigate whether the determinants of success of transnational enterprises vary by firm type. Based on a sample of 1,202 transnational business owners drawn from the Comparative Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project database, our analyses indicate general support for our hypotheses. More specifically, we found that transnational entrepreneurs‘ positive perceptions of host country opportunities and greater embeddedness in home country activities helped predict the specific type of ventures they would undertake. Further, the degree of embeddedness in the home country may influence the determinants of success for these types of firms. Depending on firm type, owners attributed their primary success to either personal characteristics, social support, or to the quality of their products and services.

scholarly journals Economic Development and Dependence Theory: The Approach of the Un Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-33
Author(s):  
Osmar Antonio Bonzanini ◽  
Tamara Silvana Menuzzi Diverio ◽  
Luiz Zuliani da Silva ◽  
Estevo Mateus Olesiak
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Dependency Theory ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Moment

Abstract Subject and purpose of work: The purpose of this article is to present the vision of ECLAC - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and its contribution to the reflections on economic development. Materials and methods: This is an exploratory and descriptive study. The first part of the paper contemplates the emergence and evolution of ECLAC thinking during its more than sixty-five years of existence. The second deals with dependency theory, ending with the current thinking proposed by ECLAC. Results: It results in a brief analysis of the moment of the globalization of the economy as an exclusionary process in the history of capitalism, emphasizing the importance of the ECLAC thinking, reinvigorated nowadays. Conclusions: It is considered that the dependency theory has been the great contribution of ECLAC thinking, with the change of focus from a viewpoint only from the prism of the central countries, to an optic from the point of view of the peripheral countries.

scholarly journals Business Climate Development Problems in a Depressed Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
A.K. Zemskova ◽  
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D.A. Hellstrom ◽  
E.A. Yanova ◽  
I.A. Kudinov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Business Climate ◽  
State Support ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
Training Activities

The Novgorod region has an exceptionally favorable geographical position, however, during the period of the general recession of the country's economy, the enterprises located in it turned out to be uncompetitive, sharply reducing their production. In modern conditions the most numerous sector of the economy are representatives of small and medium-sized businesses, which are targeted by programs of the Bank of Russia to support and stimulate their development. The Novgorod region created a municipal program for the development of this sector of the economy, which defines a set of various arrangements, the main goal of which is to provide absolute access to financial and other resources. In addition to these events, training activities are carried out, consisting in the provision of information seminars in various forms for representatives of this sector. The article presents an analysis of numerous problems in entrepreneurship development in the region of Novgorod, as well as specifies the theoretical aspects of changing the business climate. The justifications for necessary state support of small and medium-sized business subjects are highlighted. The research emphasizes two main problems of entrepreneurial activity: the socio-economic development of the Novgorod region and the development of small and medium-sized business subjects.

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