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A theory of destructive entrepreneurship

Desai, Sameeksha; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2007

Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the crea-tion of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...

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A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship

Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051051

Leading by example in intergroup competition: An experimental approach

Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We investigate leading by example in a public goods game in scenarios with and without intergroup competition. Leading by example is implemented via a sequential decision protocol. We examine both one-shot and repeated interaction and make use of the strategy method to characterize followers'...

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Leading by Words in Privileged Groups

Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Koukoumelis et al. (2010, 2012) have shown that one-way communication enhances contributions to public goods. We investigate the effectiveness of one-way communication, when the benefits from the public good are asymmetric and the sender of a message is the main beneficiary of cooperation. Our...

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Social motives in intergroup conflict

Weisel, Ori; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one's own influ- ence on...

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Social motives in intergroup conflict

Weisel, Ori; Zultan, Ro'i - 2013

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Geographic allocation of OSS contributions: the role of institutions and culture

von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2009

OSS. Also, social capital in terms of interpersonal trust has a positive impact on the number of OSS developers as well as …

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Institutions, culture, and open source

von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2010

social capital interpreted as interpersonal trust, an optimistic view of scientific progress, a low degree of regulation as …

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Trust, confidence and economic growth: An evaluation of the Beugelsdijk Hypothesis

Volland, Benjamin - 2010

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey …; Beugelsdijk, de Groot, & van Schaik, 2004; Dearmon & Grier, 2009) in fact captures the well-functioning of institutions. Our … results reveal that the correlation between trust and economic growth is robust in terms of statistical significance and sign …

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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source

Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

social capital interpreted as interpersonal trust, an optimistic view of scientific progress, a low degree of regulation as …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489509