Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies

Entrepreneurship has recently received a lot of attention from policy-makers and academics. They see it as a way to boost slowing economies and build developing ones. This paper seeks to explore the instance of being entrepreneurial within a developing economic climate. Concepts of entrepreneurship...

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Main Author: Rampersad, A
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2012
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/25553/
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description Entrepreneurship has recently received a lot of attention from policy-makers and academics. They see it as a way to boost slowing economies and build developing ones. This paper seeks to explore the instance of being entrepreneurial within a developing economic climate. Concepts of entrepreneurship as it relates to economic change and how this applies to developing environments were explored. Key supporting factor for new entrepreneurs were then pick out and examined to determine their suitability for being shared via the internet. These insights were then combined with data gathered from subjects through interviews. The overall objective was to determine if the internet and online social networks could be used to bypass limiting factors to entrepreneurial activities within unsuitable environments using current behaviours exhibited by entrepreneurs in this area.
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spelling nottingham-255532018-02-16T04:48:29Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/25553/ Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies Rampersad, A Entrepreneurship has recently received a lot of attention from policy-makers and academics. They see it as a way to boost slowing economies and build developing ones. This paper seeks to explore the instance of being entrepreneurial within a developing economic climate. Concepts of entrepreneurship as it relates to economic change and how this applies to developing environments were explored. Key supporting factor for new entrepreneurs were then pick out and examined to determine their suitability for being shared via the internet. These insights were then combined with data gathered from subjects through interviews. The overall objective was to determine if the internet and online social networks could be used to bypass limiting factors to entrepreneurial activities within unsuitable environments using current behaviours exhibited by entrepreneurs in this area. 2012 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/25553/1/Arvinda_Rampersad_-_MSc_Entrepreneurship_Dissertation.pdf Rampersad, A (2012) Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies
title Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies
title_full Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies
title_fullStr Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies
title_short Exploring the Use of the Internet and Online Social Networks in Entrepreneurship within Developing Economies
title_sort exploring the use of the internet and online social networks in entrepreneurship within developing economies
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/25553/