Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) has gained widespread popularity in social science research. However, incorporating the concept of growth-common in business and economic studies-into fsQCA remains unintuitive and methodologically challenging. This study proposes a new approach...

Information shapes people's narratives and, thus, collective action. The latter bears implications for both inter-group economic cooperation and conflict literature. In this paper, we examine the economic effects of ethnic conflicts under varying information levels as proxied by mobile Internet...

Information shapes people's narratives and, thus, collective action. The latter bears implications for both inter-group economic cooperation and conflict literature. In this paper, we examine the economic effects of ethnic conflicts under varying information levels as proxied by mobile Internet...

This study examines the relationship between conflict events, conflict-related fatalities, and entrepreneurial intentions in Iraq, one of the most war-affected countries over the past four decades and a context largely overlooked in the entrepreneurship literature. By combining regional-level...

This paper provides novel firm-level evidence—based on an enterprise survey from June 2025—on the impact of conflict exposure on firm performance in a context of chronic instability. The results indicate that, even under persistent conflict conditions, exposure significantly reduces firm...

We examine how functional-form assumptions affect conclusions about the existence of satiation in the relationship between income and emotional well-being. Previous studies have estimated a piecewise log-linear model with one structural break in both intercept and slope, which may lead to...