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In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to one of the meetings of a seminar including Talcott Parsons, Wassilly Léontief, Paul Sweezy and other Harvard scholars, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper...
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In this paper, we provide an institutional interpretation of Schumpeter's analysis of money, banking and finance. This interpretation is founded on an overall investigation into Schumpeter's writings addressing those issues from different perspectives.In section 1, we discuss the widespread...
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(Provides original sociological research on the development of consumer credit scoring in the United States and its links to subprime mortgage finance.)
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The notion of transparency is widely used as an analytical tool and as a guideline to propose and enforce new configurations of economic life. Focusing on several transparency-making devices, this paper tries to explore both the pervasiveness of this notion and its ambivalence in a number of...
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This paper examines the impact of contemporary pressures on industrial districts and analyses the changes that are taking place in an industrial district confronted with disembedding and globalization. We discuss the following questions: what are the processes and consequences of disembedding...
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Since Hofstede published his book, The consequences of culture, numerous comparative studies have flourished and built …, we selected all papers published by international accounting journals in 2009 and dealing with culture or diversity. In … have in common that they make culture part of the social environment in which an accounting situation is observed. This …
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PIF. En effet, l‟un des fondements des communautés de pratique est lié à la culture commune de ses membres. Or, au sein …
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Dans le secteur automobile, la question de l'éloignement ou de la proximité des sources d'approvisionnement suscite débat. Faut-il privilégier des fournisseurs éloignés, situés dans des pays low cost ? Au contraire, quels avantages ou risques peuvent être dégagés d'un approvisionnement...
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Dans le secteur automobile, la question de l'éloignement ou de la proximité des sources d'approvisionnement suscite débat. Faut-il privilégier des fournisseurs éloignés, situés dans des pays low cost ? Au contraire, quels avantages ou risques peuvent être dégagés d'un approvisionnement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547610
The relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that factors other than economic ones are at play (Freytag and Thurik, 2010). Cultural factors, as a subset of stable contextual factors, may play a role. In this paper, we give examples of various...
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