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Multiple identities of second-generation entepreneurs of Chinese origin in the Netherlands
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227469.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Radboud University, 23 december 2020Promotor : Lagendijk, A. Co-promotores : Essers, C., Pijpers, R.A.H.189 p
Small business growth in East African Least Developed Countries: Unravelling the role of the small business owners
Get PDFMasurel, E. [Promotor]Paas, L.J. [Copromotor]Essers, C. [Copromotor
Refugee Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands: Navigating Structural Challenges and Inclusion
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325288.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)This research studies how entrepreneurship plays a role in the inclusion of
refugee entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and how they navigate
structural challenges and opportunities through an intersectional lens.
Using a contextualized comparative approach, it draws on life stories of 29
refugee-background entrepreneurs from two distinct groups: Iranians
(arriving in the 1980s–90s) and Syrians (arriving post-2015).
Findings reveal that, despite four decades of policies promoting
entrepreneurial inclusion, opportunities remain unevenly distributed. Both
groups encountered persistent structural and institutional barriers,
indicating that the Dutch context often fails to provide sufficient support
for establishing and growing businesses. Nevertheless, entrepreneurship
was widely perceived as a vital pathway to societal inclusion. For these
entrepreneurs, business activities served not only as economic strategies
but also as means of asserting agency, redefining identities, and building
social connections.
The study highlights the complexity of the Dutch integration system and
the limitations of current policies in ensuring equitable opportunities. It
calls for an inclusive, intersectional policy framework and systemic reforms
to foster a more supportive environment for refugee entrepreneursRadboud University, 26 november 2025Promotor : Nieuwkerk, C. van Co-promotor : Essers, C.108 p
Women entrepreneurs and innovation: retrospect and prospect
Get PDFThis paper answers the call for a deeper understanding of innovation issues in relation to female entrepreneurship. In doing so, it offers a comprehensive and updated picture of the state of the art of management research on innovation in women-owned firms. Specifically, by conducting a systematic literature review, which is widely used in management studies, and by using rigorous and replicable criteria, this manuscript seeks to understand this crucial intersection through an in depth investigation of 48 papers, thus addressing a relevant gap that exists in literature to date. Results demonstrate that, despite the increasing attention given to female entrepreneurship and innovation at both political and social levels, due to their key role worldwide, a significant gap in the integration of these two areas still exists. Thus, it is time for scholars to reimagine the concept of innovation and to explore the untapped potential within female entrepreneurship, redefining and bringing to light all the facets that innovation may have. The study provides avenues on which scholars should focus in order to help policy makers to work towards fostering a more inclusive and dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem that empowers women to drive innovation and economic growth
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AND INNOVATION: STATE OF THE ART AND RESEARCH CHALLENGES
No full textThis paper answers the call for a deeper understanding of innovation issues in relation to female entrepreneurship. It aims, in particular, to offer a comprehensive picture of the state of the art of management research on innovation in women-owned firms drawing on data from a systematic literature review. In so doing, we identify two main areas around which today’s conversation is centered, namely the analysis of those factors able to affect innovation in women-owned firms, and how innovation affects these firms’ outcomes. Interesting food for thought for scholars and policy makers emerges and the need to foster research in this issue is highlighted
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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