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Geographic allocation of OSS contributions: the role of institutions and culture
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2009
institutional and cultural factors. Our findings are that a culture characterized by individualism/self-determination is in favor of … has similarities to technical science and scientific culture, is a a public good game with the contributions are a means …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273829
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Institutions, culture, and open source
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2010
institutional and cultural factors. Our findings are that a culture characterized by individualism/self-determination, abundance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273832
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TV and entrepreneurship
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
Can TV influence the entrepreneurial decisions of individuals? To identify causal effects, we utilize a quasi-natural experiment, namely that during the division of Germany after WWI into the capitalistic West Germany and the socialistic East Germany, West TV was exogenously available only in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788766
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Geographic Allocation of OSS Contributions: The Role of Institutions and Culture
Engelhardt, Sebastian v.; Freytag, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
, collaborative manner by thousands of volunteers as well as profit-seeking firms. Our cross-country study shows that a culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963267
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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source
Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
institutional and cultural factors. Our findings are that a culture characterized by individualism/self-determination, abundance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489509
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The Random part in network evolution
Grebel, Thomas - 2009
Economic behavior strives for efficiency. Therefore, also evolving network structures should be a result of such a goal-oriented behavior. Traditionally, networks were assumed to be only temporary phenomena, since the prevailing organizational forms that comply with the efficiency postulate are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271179
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The Random Part in Network Evolution
Grebel, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Economic behavior strives for efficiency. Therefore, also evolving network structures should be a result of such a goal-oriented behavior. Traditionally, networks were assumed to be only temporary phenomena, since the prevailing organizational forms that comply with the efficiency postulate are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970825
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the conven-tion in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Pro-fessor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276970
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090508
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Does persistence in start-up activity reflect persistence in social capital?
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015
regional culture and a supporting environment in favor of entrepreneurship that particularly involves social capital. This … how different elements of such a culture, such as social capital, can exert an influence on the level of new business … formation and self-employment. As a demonstration for the relevance of a regional entrepreneurship culture for new business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348206