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social capital interpreted as interpersonal trust, an optimistic view of scientific progress, a low degree of regulation as …
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characterized by interpersonal trust and self-determination/fulfillment values has a positive impact on OSS activities and the …
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This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey … results reveal that the correlation between trust and economic growth is robust in terms of statistical significance and sign … underlining the existing empirical evidence that trust matters in explaining differences in economic performance, our results also …
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This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that...
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, and whether this is anticipated by outsiders. We develop a simple model of bayesian learning in trust games and test the … derived hypotheses in a controlled laboratory environment. In the experiment, two trustees sequentially play a trust game with …
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Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...
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or market structure. We address the question how competition among suppliers of finance interacts with trust and … trustworthiness in a laboratory one-shot trust game. In order to disentangle pure effects of competition and effects of competition … coordination games with clear focal points, which leads to higher investments and trustworthiness in the trust game. Our results …
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We investigate the impact of actors' positions within regional innovator networks on their innovative performance. The networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show positive effects on innovation of both the total...
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The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct experiments, sociologists rather employ (factorial) surveys. Both methods, however, suffer from distinct weaknesses. Experiments, on the one hand, often fall short in the...
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Most research in economics models agents somehow motivated by outcomes. Here, we model agents motivated by procedures instead, where procedures are defined independently of an outcome. To that end, we design procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry the same information on...
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