Introduction -- The importance of everything but oil -- A theory about oil, policymakers, and the business environment -- Oil and the business environment in Iran -- Doing business in India's mining belt -- Reform in the Gulf Arab context: Saudi Arabia since the 1990s -- Conclusion

The aim of our paper is to identify how entrepreneurs from European Union (EU) countries use information and communications technologies (ICTs) in their business activities. We also propose to identify if there are differences in the use of ICTs by entrepreneurs, according to level of economic...

Microenterprises account for a large fraction of employment in developing countries and they are likely to increase in importance in the future. In Sub- Saharan Africa, for example, around 8 million additional jobs need to be created annually in order to cope with the increasing number of new...