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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states
Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010
This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …
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The role of novelty-seeking traits in contemporary knowledge creation
Gören, Erkan - 2017 - This Version: September 2017
This paper hypothesizes and empirically establishes the persistent effects of novelty-seeking traits on crosscountry differences in scientific knowledge creation. I use data on the prevalence of specific allele variants of the human DRD4 exon III gene, which population geneticists have linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724595
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Culture, diffusion, and economic development
Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...
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The effects of national culture on financial sector development : evidence from emerging and developing economies
Khan, Muhammad Atif; Gu, Lulu; Khan, Muhammad Asif; … - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 22 (2022) 1, pp. 103-112
This study investigates the effects of national culture on financial sector development in emerging and developing economies. Prior literature on culture and finance has placed little focus on the multidimensionality of national culture and its potential implications for financial sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818033
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Entrepreneurship and path dependency in regional development
Brekke, Thomas - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 27 (2015) 3/4, pp. 202-218
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Born to be an entrepreneur? : how cultural origin affects entrepreneurship
Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018
performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …
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TV and entrepreneurship
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …
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TV and entrepreneurship
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …
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Social Development and Commodity Business : An Entrepreneurial Approach (Developpement Social et Commerce des Matieres Premieres: Une Approche Entrepreneuriale) (French)
Martin, Maximilian - 2009
This paper provides a conceptual framework for an action-oriented entrepreneurial social agenda for commodity businesses. Providing basic and high-value commodities, the extractive industry fulfills a fundamental economic need. Operating in a wide variety of geographical and climatic conditions...
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Born to be an Entrepreneur? How Cultural Origin Affects Entrepreneurship
Erhardt, Katharina - 2019
performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896878