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Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa : Context, Challenges, Cases
Achtenhagen, Leona (ed.); Brundin, Ethel (ed.) - 2016
personnel and environmental concerns. Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: Context, Challenges, Cases will be … -- Section IV: Commentary -- Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: A perspective and a short review …This book focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and SME management on the African continent by providing …
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Evolutionary analysis of the relationship between economic growth, environmental quality and resource scarcity
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2003 - Rev.
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Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?
Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Guilia; Auriol, … - 2017
Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...
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Holi crimes
Martínez, Claudia; Poblete-Cazenave, Rubén - 2024
A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable portion of such incidents occurring in public spaces. Harmful social norms emphasizing men's power over women have been highlighted as one crucial culprit. We study a public festivity...
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Complex evolutionary systems in behavioral finance
Hommes, Cars H.; Wagener, Florian Oskar Ottokar - 2008
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Optimal diversity in investments with recombinant innovation
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - 2008
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Industry evolution : diversity, selection and the role of learning
Audretsch, David B.; Houweling, Patrick; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to show how institutional and evolutionary economics provide better insights as to whysome firms survive and others do not than does neoclassical economics. At the heart of the evolutionary theory isthe view that new firms are a manifestation of diversity and that...
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Complex evolutionary systems in behavioral finance
Hommes, Cars H.; Wagener, Florian Oskar Ottokar - 2008
Traditional finance is built on the rationality paradigm. This chapter discusses simple models from an alternative approach in which financial markets are viewed as complex evolutionary systems. Agents are boundedly rational and base their investment decisions upon market forecasting heuristics....
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Evolutionary theories in environmental and resource economics : approaches and applications
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Gowdy, John M. - 1998
Recent advances in evolutionary theory have important implications for environmental economics. A short overview is offered of evolutionarythinking in economics. Subsequently, major concepts and approaches inevolutionary biology and evolutionary economics are presented andcompared. Attention is...
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The microfoundations of macroeconomics : an evolutionary perspective
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Gowdy, John M. - 2000
We consider the microfoundations controversy from the perspective ofeconomic evolution and show that the debatecan benefit from lessons learned in evolutionary biology. Althoughthe analogy between biology and economics hasbeen noted before, it has rarely focused on clarifying the micro-macro...
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