Documents et rapports
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What Prevents More Small Firms from Using Professional Business Services ? An Information and Quality-Rating Experiment in Nigeria (anglais)
Why do more small firms in developing countries not use the market for professional business services like accounting, marketing, and human resource specialists? Two key reasons may be that firms lack...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9614 Date du document: 6 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Mckenzie,David J.
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Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur : A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing and Outsourcing (anglais)
Many small firms lack the finance and marketing skills needed for firm growth. The standard approach in many business support programs is to attempt to train the entrepreneur to develop these skills, through...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9502 Date du document: 17 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Mckenzie,David J.
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Using the Market to Hire Skills as an Alternative to Business Training (anglais)
This note reports on a new approach to improving business practices in growing firms - using the market to insource or outsource skills instead of training the entrepreneur.
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 155245 Date du document: 1 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Mckenzie,David J.
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Measuring the Unmeasured : Combining Technology and Behavioral Insights to Improve Measurement of Business Outcomes (anglais)
Business survey outcomes for micro and small firms are notoriously noisy, with multiple sources of measurement and recall error. This paper introduces a new survey methodology that combines automatic consistency...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8836 Date du document: 30 avril 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Lazicky,Christy Marie,Zia,Bilal Husnain
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Pathways to profits : identifying separate channels of small firm growth through business training (anglais)
This paper identifies separate and unique pathways to profits among small businesses in South Africa that are exposed to marketing or finance training in a randomized control study. The marketing group...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7774 Date du document: 28 juillet 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Chandy,Rajesh,Zia,Bilal Husnain