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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2011
This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and effciency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance. When economic integration is low and local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294445
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Modernizing Legacy Systems: A Re-Engineering Approach
Vijaya, Aparna; Venkataraman, Neelanarayanan - In: International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) 10 (2018) 2, pp. 50-60
move their existing applications to the cloud for modernization. But this modernization also comes at a price. The authors … present a model-driven approach to address the challenges in application modernization and focus on the application migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012048723
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Modernization of the agri-food sector of the Republic of Moldova in the context of international trade development
Stratan, Alexandru; Moroz, Victor; Ignat, Anatol - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to identify opportunities for modernization of the agri-food sector of the Republic of … possible directions of the agro-food sector modernization in order to overcome external trade shocks were discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288280
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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among...
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Enterpreneurship and innovation activites in the schumpeterian lines
Korres, George; Marmaras, Emmanuel; Tsobanoglou, George - 2004
: Entrepreneurship, Innovation Activities, Diffusion, Modernization, Competitiveness, Schumperer. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318799
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor – Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and Black Diasporas in L...
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas …, (pp. 241-262). 2011
The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331376
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Religious origins of democracies and dictatorships
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013
radical government and modernization stochastic games. I find that modernization occurs in a collectivist economy when the … in power, the leader credibly commits to provide more public goods in the future, and thus modernization occurs …. Underdevelopment occurs at intermediate levels of state enforcement, modernization at low levels and centralization at high levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324149
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2012
This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance. When economic integration is low and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326250
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The transfer of corruptive routines from old industrial regions to innovation clusters: a blind spot in innovation studies
Gebhardt, Christiane - In: Triple Helix 4 (2017) 1, pp. 1-35
key target for politically induced transformation and modernization. The study demonstrates the importance of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940116
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Opening the Chrysalis: Willard D. Straight’s Sketches, Photographs, and Accounts of Korea’s Interaction with the Outside World, 1904–5
Gürsel, Bahar - In: New Global Studies 16 (2021) 3, pp. 345-369
Abstract Willard D. Straight – architect, diplomat, photographer, publisher, sketcher, and writer – arrived in Korea in 1904 as a correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War, and became the US vice consul in Seoul in 1905. By utilizing a number of images from the Willard Dickerman Straight...
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