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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewics, Tomasz - 2012

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The power of institutions on international marketing : reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic can inform international marketing activities

Griffith, David A.; Yalcinkaya, Goksel - In: International marketing review 40 (2023) 5, pp. 957-980

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Global Civil Unrest : Contagion, Self-Organization, and Prediction

Braha, Dan - 2012

Civil unrest is a powerful form of collective human dynamics, which has led to major transitions of societies in modern history. The study of collective human dynamics, including collective aggression, has been the focus of much discussion in the context of modeling and identification of...

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DIALOGO — Religion and Society : Agreements & Controversies

Mirea, Ruxandra - 2017

Religion is the most paradox, intriguing and social active factor in the world history since the beginning of human society and till the end of it, no matter how evolved or primitive its precepts ever were. For that reason Religion was always a subject for endless study in different perspectives...

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Bitcoin Myths and Facts

Harvey, Campbell R. - 2017

I will address eight common claims about bitcoin: 1. Physical bitcoins exist; 2. The founder of bitcoin is a person called Satoshi Nakamoto; 3. Bitcoin is mainly used for criminal activity; 4. A lack of security plagues bitcoin; 5. Mining is a waste of energy; 6. Bitcoin too small today to be an...

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Liberty at the Borders of Private Law

Smythe, Donald J. - 2015

wide range of literature on the relationship between law and liberty, but most of it focuses on the relationship between … public law and liberty. This article focuses on the relationship between private law and liberty. Private laws are enforced … by courts. Since the judiciary is a branch of government and courts ultimately derive their authority from the State, the …

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What Drives Microfinance Institution's Financial Sustainability

Ayayi, Ayi Gavriel - 2011

Microfinance promises to trim down poverty. To achieve this noble objective microfinance institutions (MFIs) have to become steady profitable because donor constancy is not a given. Thus important question is: what factors drive the financial sustainability of MFIs? Using data on 217 MFIs in 101...

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Decentralization and Natural Disasters

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013

level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third …

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Connotation of Minor Millet Biodiversity and Indirect Payments in Tribal Homesteads in the Backdrop of Climate Change

Aravindakshan, Sreejith - 2014

Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...

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