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Entrepreneurship in Venezuela: Case Study

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Entrepreneurs are driven by the need to make a living or by a vision of exploiting opportunity. Together, they weave a country’s economic fabric; but those who strive for opportunity have the capacity to bring about innovation and change, to shape a flourishing economy. Sometimes entrepreneurs overshoot their target and their business flounders. Something of that ilk occurs when government leaders shape the context in which economies grow or decline, a paradox that is illustrated by Venezuela’s entrepreneurial and political development.

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  1. IESA, Venezuela

    Roberto Vainrub & Aramis Rodriguez

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  1. INCAE Business School, Costa Rica

    Esteban R. Brenes

  2. Florida International University, USA

    Jerry Haar

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Vainrub, R., Rodriguez, A. (2012). Entrepreneurship in Venezuela: Case Study. In: Brenes, E.R., Haar, J. (eds) The Future of Entrepreneurship in Latin America. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137003324_9

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