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In the early transition era in Russia entry barriers for commercial banks were about absent. It resulted in the mushrooming of hundreds of small, poorly-endowed and inexperienced banks. In this paper we address the question whether the claimed benefits of low entry barriers - competition and...
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Comparative cross-cultural studies and identity research in social psychology focused on national and organizational … identity and identization (cf. Honneth, Sievers, van Riel) acquired growing significance viewed against the background of three …
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Fashion is the quintessential post-modernist consumer practice, or so many hold. In this contribution, I argue that, on the contrary, fashion should be understood as a means of communicating one's commitment to modernist values. I introduce the framework of the Social Value Network, to relate...
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target ethnic minorities have emerged: messaging consumers when their ethnic identity is most salient, and featuring …
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upon discriminatory effects (direct effect). Whether gender has an impact on size and composition of start-up capital, is …
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differential relative impact on female and male entrepreneurship, i.e., whether they influence the diversity or gender composition … of female entrepreneurs or the gender composition of entrepreneurship) to be able to select appropriate policy measures. …
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(probit) equation model. It makes a systematic distinction between different ways in which gender influences the preference …-employed plays an important role in explaining their lower involvement in self-employment and that a gender effect remains that may … point at gender-based obstacles to entrepreneurship. …
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, availability of other income, outsourcing, side activities and gender. We show that some of the identified factors relate to …
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This paper investigates time allocation decisions in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs using a model that distinguishes between effects of preferences and productivity on the number of working hours. Using data of 1,158 entrepreneurs we find that the preference for work time in new...
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made between emphasizing commitment or control in the design of HRM practices. To test for gender differences use is made …
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