This study questions the assumption that entrepreneurship unequivocally leads to economic growth. Using insights from institutional theory and development economics, we reevaluate entrepreneurship’s contribution towards economic growth. Our study uses Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is emerging debatable hot issue in the globalization era, when role of the Commercial Banks has been supporting to development of industry, trade and market. A large number of the Commercial Banks have been providing financial services by expanding...

Este trabajo trata de comprobar si la eficiencia productiva del Grupo Telefónica S.A. de España ha mejorado luego de ser privatizada. Se ha utilizado este caso por ser una empresa representativa en la industria de las telecomunicaciones globales. La evidencia empírica indica que las empresas...

This work shows if the productive efficiency of the Group Telefónica S.A. of Spain it has improved after being privatized. This case has been used to be a representative company in the industry of the global telecommunications. The empiric evidence indicates that the companies of this sector...

Although Ireland is a high productivity country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout the 2000s. To identify the determinants behind the aggregate productivity growth in Ireland we use a firm-level panel dataset from...

This paper is aimed to empirically test for Ireland the “granular hypothesis” (Gabaix 2011), which posits that firm-level productivity shocks can explain a sizable portion of aggregate productivity fluctuations. The Irish case is particularly relevant as Ireland has been experiencing...

Productivity growth is critical for enterprise competitiveness, economic growth, the financing of public services and ultimately improvements of living standards through sustainable wage levels. Aggregate labour productivity figures for Ireland continue to show a strong performance relative to...

Productivity growth is a key determinant of national competitiveness, enabling firms to compete successfully in international markets by facilitating output to be produced more efficiently. It is, arguably, the most important factor determining long-term economic growth, sustainable wage rates...

The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the “Corporate Welfare” policies are embedded in a complex, dynamic and unstable mode of regulation. Based on qualitative and quantitative evidences from France since the 2008 financial crisis, we identify the five canonical institutional forms...

This article analyzes the conditions for endogenous entrepreneurial development, understood as the transition from entrepreneurship by necessity to local entrepreneurship by opportunity. The theoretical model that we develop shows that the presence of foreign-owned companies does not hinder...