through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender … differences in competitiveness. We consider three possible indirect pathways through which sex hormones could affect …

uses two modelling approaches to estimate the competitiveness of these regions, viz. data envelopment analysis (DEA) and … the Malmquist method. Our results show that the competitiveness position of several Italian regions has not improved over …

Recently the notion and the measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the … subject of this paper – inspired by the conceptual competitiveness model developed earlier by Crouch and Ritchie – concerns … tourist site competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency using parametric and non-parametric methods, a stochastic …

The potential relationship between domestic environmental regulation and international competitiveness has evoked … competitiveness of industry, and that it induces phenomena such as ecological dumping, ecological capital flight, and regulatory … potential, and subsequently increases its competitiveness. The impact of environmental regulation on competitiveness has been …

. Stringent environmental regulation may impair the export competitiveness of ‘dirty’ domestic industries, and as a result …

address the issue of entrepreneurship in two distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economics … and b) as it develops in the transitional context. In contrast to advanced western economies, productive entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship for transition countries. By means of a literature survey, we further present the main characteristics of …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …