institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic …

Hunt (2012) builds on his work concerning ethics and resource-advantage theory to link personal ethical standards …, societal norms, and economic growth but offers few details concerning the precise mechanisms that link ethics and growth. This … elasticity of substitution and, therefore, total factor productivity and growth. …

moral codes, this article explores a theory of ethics, known as the “Hunt-Vitell” theory of ethics, that illuminates the … concept of personal moral codes and uses the theory to discuss which types of personal moral codes foster trust and distrust … in society. This article then uses resource-advantage (R-A) theory, one of the most completely articulated dynamic …