Differences in strategic decision making between CEOs and other people are interesting since CEOs make important economic decisions and impact values and norms in society. Our study combines a large stratified random sample of 199 CEOs of medium-size firms with a carefully selected control group...

Where do economic institutions come from? -- Markets and endogenous institutional change -- The epicenter of bottom-up capitalism -- Entrepreneurs and institutional innovation -- Legitimacy and organizational change -- Industrial clusters and competitive advantage -- The development of labor...