Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45159 
Full metadata record
DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorRooks, Gerriten
dc.contributor.authorSzirmai, Adamen
dc.contributor.authorSserwanga, Arthuren
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-17-
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-26T07:42:40Z-
dc.date.available2011-04-26T07:42:40Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-9230-178-1en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/45159-
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses the characteristics and determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour in Uganda. It is based on a recent survey of urban and rural entrepreneurs, executed in May 2008. The main dependent variables are business success, gestation activities and innovative performance. The paper focuses in particular on the interplay of human and social capital in determining entrepreneurial performance. A prominent question in the literature is whether human capital and social capital act as complements or substitutes in furthering entrepreneurial dynamism. We find that Ugandan enterprises are predominantly very small and not very dynamic. Most enterprises are young, with little or no growth of employment since start-up. Only a very small subset of sample entrepreneurs could be classified as entrepreneur in the dynamic Schumpeterian sense.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aThe United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) |cHelsinkien
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWIDER Research Paper |x2009/09en
dc.subject.jelD85en
dc.subject.jelL26en
dc.subject.jelL25en
dc.subject.jelO31en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordsocial capitalen
dc.subject.keywordhuman capitalen
dc.subject.keywordentrepreneurshipen
dc.subject.keyworddeveloping countriesen
dc.subject.stwUnternehmensentwicklungen
dc.subject.stwSocial Capitalen
dc.subject.stwHumankapitalen
dc.subject.stwEntwicklungsländeren
dc.subject.stwUgandaen
dc.titleThe interplay of human and social capital in entrepreneurship in developing countries: The case of Uganda-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn601812514en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

Files in This Item:
File
Size
142.62 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.