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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship : The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics : Opportunities and Challenges

Deschenes, Olivier - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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Human Capital and Climate Change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A.; … - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...

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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?

Bryson, Alex - 2016

, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature …'s Business Structure Database (BSD), with data on management practices collected in face-to-face interviews from the HR Managers …-the-job training is the only management practice that is robustly and significantly associated with higher employment growth, increased …

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Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results

Bayo Moriones, José Alberto - 2016

In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...

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The Effectiveness of Strategies to Contain Sars-Cov-2 : Testing, Vaccinations, and Npis

Gabler, Janos; Raabe, Tobias; Roehrl, Klara; von … - 2022

In order to slow the spread of the CoViD-19 pandemic, governments around the world have enacted a wide set of policies limiting the transmission of the disease. Initially, these focused on non-pharmaceutical interventions; more recently, vaccinations and large-scale rapid testing have started to...

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Field Experiments in Strategy Research

Chatterji, Aaron - 2015

Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...

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Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....

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INTEGRATED CORPORATE STRATEGY MODEL

SITNIKOV, CATALINA SORIANA; GEORGE, BOCEAN CLAUDIU - In: Annals - Economy Series 1 (2014) February, pp. 258-263

Corporations are at present operating in demanding and highly unsure periods, facing a mixture of increased macroeconomic need, competitive and capital market dangers, and in many cases, the prospect for significant technical and regulative gap. Throughout these demanding and highly unsure...

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