We ran principal component regressions of growth and income on existing measures of institutions to assess which are the most important for economic performance. We find that broadly defined institutions of checks and balances as well as a democratic and anti-authoritarian culture are the most...

Information technology (IT) involve a wide set of risks. Enterprise information systems are a major developing form of information technology involving their own set of risks, thus creating potential blind spots. This paper describes risk management issues involved in enterprise resource...

The concept of social capital may be approached from a variety of disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, etc. Definitions of social capital use terms like networks, trust and shared action. The object of this work is to move towards a quantification of social capital and,...