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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016
better understand the complicity of business there is a need for a shift from diagnostic attention on how businesses are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452640
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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Is the scholarly field of entrepreneurship at its end?
Naudé, Wim - 2024
break in the disruptiveness of entrepreneurship and business papers occurred around 1999. These results should not be taken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512260
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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession
Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017
during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731970
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Psychological momentum and gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455776
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Some contributions of economics to the study of personality
Heckman, James J.; Jagelka, Tomáš; Kautz, Tim - 2019
This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement and empirical importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136850
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The city as a self-help book : the psychology of urban promises
Cardoso, Rodrigo V.; Meijers, Evert J.; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017
Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641466
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Homo reciprocans : survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348535