African SMES, networks, and manufacturing performance

By Tyler Biggs, M. Shah. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

Inside the Black Box: Bank Credit Allocation in China’s Private Sector (2009, background): “…international evidence has shown that the support of formal financing to private firms determines the sustainability of this sector (Beck and Demirgüç-Kunt, 2006) and informal financing based on relationships is detrimental to business exchange, competition and innovation (Biggs and Shah, 2006).”
Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “…entrepreneurial advantage based on their opportunity to exploit their minority community networks to overcome important hindrances to entrepreneurship, such as regulatory drawbacks, credit constraints, and difficulties accessing available inputs and technologies (Kilby 1983; Biggs and Shah 2006).”
Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries (2013, background): “1), such as information asymmetries, high transaction costs, credit constraints, and difficulties in accessing available inputs and technologies (Kilby, 1983; Biggs and Shah, 2006).”
Small and medium-size enterprises: Access to finance as a growth constraint (2006, background): “However, there is variation in access to such networks across ethnic groups as discussed by Biggs and Shah (2006).”
High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach (2010, background): “A number of studies also investigate the role played by ethnic minority entrepreneurs and, in particular, how they succeed in using their minority community networks of trust to overcome credit and information constraints, thereby reaching superior levels of entrepreneurial success (e.g., Mengistae ”
Open innovation for SMEs in developing countries – An intermediated communication network model for collaboration beyond obstacles (2012, background): “Because of their limited resources they may developing countries (Biggs & Shah 2006).”