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The Economic Legacy of Civil War: Firm Level Evidence from Sierra Leone

Collier, Paul; Duponche, Marguerite - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based upon household surveys. The originality of the present study is that it investigates for the first time the likely predominant route by which...

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Pragmatic entrepreneurs and institutionalized scholars? - On the path-dependent nature of entrepreneurship scholarship

Wennberg, Karl; Berglund, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

Research surveys of the field of entrepreneurship suggest that the maturation and institutionalization of … entrepreneurship as a research field brings about both new opportunities and constraints from established thoughts and practices. In … research in entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly institutionalized with regard to different issues: successively …

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A new perspective on the innovator’s dilemma

Berglund, Henrik; Sandström, Christian - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

Abstract: Why do entrant firms sometimes gain the upper hand under conditions of discontinuous technological change? Previous research on this topic has either looked at the role of established competencies and/or firm incentives to invest in a new technology. In this paper we explore an...

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Non-state Sovereign Entrepreneurs and Non-territorial Sovereign Organizations

Brauer1, Jurgen; Haywood, Robert - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...

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