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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton Hughes - 2018

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

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Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship : The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints

Ardagna, Silvia - 2008

the workforce are important determinants of entrepreneurship, and we also highlight the relevance of social networks, self …

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The analysis of firms and employees : quantitative and qualitative approaches

Bender, Stefan (contributor); Lane, Julia (contributor); … - 2008

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Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans

Obradovich, Nick - 2020

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...

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Worker Empowerment and Subjective Evaluation : On Building an Effective Conflict Culture

MacLeod, William Bentley - 2020

Although conflicts typically lead to a waste of resources, organizations may still benefit from a corporate culture that tolerates or even encourages conflicts. The reason is that coordinated conflicts may help to enforce informal contracts and foster cooperation. In this paper we report results...

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Corporate Culture as a Theory of the Firm

Gorton, Gary - 2020

Markets and firms offer contrasting methods to arrange production. In markets, contracts govern the purchase of parts and services that compose production. In firms, the shared values, customs, and norms coming from a corporate culture govern employees' joint development of those parts and...

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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?

Dyck, Alexander - 2007

What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one...

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Social Progress and Corporate Culture

Gorton, Gary - 2019

Social progress through improved treatment of minority groups (the embrace of anti-racist and anti-sexist norms, for example) may or may not spread to corporate cultures through competition. Sometimes the market fails to adapt on its own and government must pass legislation to secure changes in...

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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking

Mishra, Prachi - 2019

Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state-owned or public sector banks (PSBs). NPBs adopt scoring quickly for all borrowers. PSBs adopt scoring quickly for new borrowers but not for existing borrowers. Instrumental...

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Special issue on NBER conference on the causes and consequences of corporate culture

Schwert, George William (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Causes and Consequences of …; … - 2015

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