than those born in other areas of Japan before World War II. This implies that experiencing an historically traumatic event …

Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching …

The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has …. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the … from concepts of the cultural theory of Oswald Spengler. The paper will look at the South China Sea from two perspectives …

This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We … argue that the severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered political centralization in China while Europe … the frequency of nomadic attacks and the number of regimes in China. Our model allows us to explore the economic …

The paper presents the analysis of recent developments of Schumpeterian theory of entrepreneurship and innovation in …

Using case study analysis based on in-depth interviews we aim to extend the entrepreneurship research in transition … context in Poland. Entrepreneurship models build in America and Western Europe do not picture the specifics of … entrepreneurship in transition economies. The author reviews concepts and theses on entrepreneurship in this context and argues that …

varied across different enterprises. The findings are important in formulating policy for entrepreneurship development and …