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Constraints and opportunities facing women entrepreneurs in developing countries: a relational perspective
No full textPurpose: this purpose of the paper to examine the interplay of constraints and opportunities affecting female entrepreneurship in developing countries. The paper integrates salient micro- and macro-level perspectives and provides a rounded account of opportunities and constraints as part of a holistic interdependent system.Design/methodology/approach: the paper adopts an integrative multi-level research design and an interpretive research methodology, capitalizing on in-depth interviews with ten women entrepreneurs to explore their perceptions and interpretations of constraints and opportunities facing female entrepreneurship in the Lebanese context.Findings: the findings presented in this paper clearly illustrate the relevance of micro-, meso-, and macro-level factors in entrepreneurship research and the usefulness of integrating multiple lens and units of analysis to capture the complexity of the women entrepreneurship experience in any particular context.Originality/value: the value added of this research lies in adapting a framework recently popularized in the context of diversity management for use in entrepreneurship research, helping to capture in turn the dynamic interplay of multiple levels of analysis and objective/subjective factors influencing female entrepreneurshi
A public private partnership in the Lebanese telecommunications industry: critical success factors and policy lessons
No full textPublic-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly heralded as an innovative policy tool for remedying the lack of dynamism in traditional public service delivery. The logistics and policy requirements for successful PPP implementation have yet to be systematically explored. This article synthesizes the opportunities and challenges encountered in the context of PPPs and identifies critical success factors and/or policy requirements for successful PPP implementation. This case study assesses a recent PPP initiative in the telecommunications sector of Lebanon and draws out lessons for improving the effectiveness and viability of PPP projects in the context of developing countrie
Transformational leadership in the context of change: implications for leadership in education
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The CSR of MNC subsidiaries in developing countries: global, local, substantive or diluted
No full textWith the advent of globalization, the track record of multinational corporations (MNCs) has been mixed at best in relation to their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) involvement in developing countries. This article attempts to cross-fertilize insights from the business-society and international business political behavior literature streams to identify relevant dimensions and contingencies that can be used to analyze the CSR of MNCs in developing countries and the extent of standardization or localization of their strategies. The article makes use of the new theoretical framework in the context of an interpretive research methodology to examine the CSR orientations of a sample of MNC subsidiaries in Lebanon. The findings reveal patterns of global CSR being diffused to developing countries, but also being diluted along the way in view of specific subsidiary endowments and host market characteristic
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