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The volatility of survey measures of culture and its consequences
Zanella, Giulio; Bellani, Marina M. - 2019
Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow-moving traits that determine preferences and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130251
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The survival of unique corporate cultures
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2016
In this paper we identify two situations that can lead a firm to hire an executive who supports a corporate culture that differs from the firm's current culture. In the first case, there is similarity between the firm's culture and that of the candidate and in the second case, executives who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457359
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Social evolution, corporate culture, and exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This essay places emphasis on firm organisation, rather than market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415214
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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data
Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889
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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review
Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015
We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309009
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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance of newborn firms in developing countries
Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754698
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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013
The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224596