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We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain entrepreneurial growth aspirations across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses at the national level about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and greater...
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Formal schooling has a significant impact on modern agricultural productivity but there is little evidence quantifying the historical importance of schools in the early development of the American agricultural sector. I present new data from the Midwest at the start of the twentieth century...
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We study how students’ social networks emerge by documenting systematic patterns in the process of friendship formation of incoming students; these students all start out in a new environment and thus jointly create a new social network. As a specific novelty, we consider cooperativeness, time...
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407818
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062485
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076902
This paper draws on qualitative and quantitative data on the migration experiences of Brazilians living in Portugal and … the Netherlands to reflect and expand upon the existing knowledge on the role of social networks in migration processes …
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-scale, resource-poor farmers access and use information and knowledge in their agricultural production decisions. Although these … provide new perspectives on the role played by smallholder innovation networks in the agricultural sector by drawing on data … beneficial innovation processes. From a policy perspective, the findings suggest the need to further explore policies and …
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