better their European peers. European Common Law and Civil Law countries exhibit comparable levels of venture performance …

Abstract Both Mexico and China have started export orientation in some industries, through assembly operations, based … whether the process, if successful, is replicable elsewhere. China and Mexico the process of trade liberalization and … develop comparative advantage in many industries initiated through import substitution; but China has been more successful …

To the extent that trust is necessary to conduct informal sector business activities, its absence could possibly … constrain entrepreneurial spirit and overall economic growth. This paper tests the hypothesis that differences in trust levels … is driven by trust considerations. This result is robust to regional clustering and to alternative conditioning variables …

Trust is acknowledged as a central tenet of business relationships. Yet for all the attention it receives, rarely has … trust been investigated in the Chinese business setting. This paper uses an emic approach to unearth some within …-culture ‘truths’ about Chinese notions of trust in business exchange. The findings of this research suggest that deep trust (xinren …

group of countries includes USA, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Japan, China, Australia and number of major European economies. The …