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Venturing Beyond the Marathon: The Entrepreneurship of Ultrarunning and the IAU World Cup in Korea
Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
’s sporting culture. Macro-environmental factors include the economic crisis and Korean cultural values of comradery, emotional …
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Globalization of Sports : the Case of Professional Football and itsInternational Management Challenges
Dolles, Harald; Söderman, Sten - Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien <Tokyo - 2005
The formation and the diversity of most types of organizations goinginternational are well researched. However, some aspects of postmodernlife, such as sports and entertainment, are presently growing in importanceand management complexity.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005850189
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Families’ and children’s experience of sport and informal activity in Olympic areas of the East End
Davidson, Rosemary; Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Sport England is interested to know how families with children experience the following aspects ofneighbourhood life …: involvement in sport; access to facilities; activities for young people; and theengagement of young people in poor areas in the … Olympic development. Sport England wantedevidence from our research tracking the experiences of 100 families over eight years …
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Culture, Institutions and Government Attitudes towards New Firm Entry
Baptista, Rui - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between cultural values, political institutions and government regulation of entry. For this, it couples data for 53 countries from a variety of sources in comparative political economy and cross-cultural psychology. A society's general attitude towards risk...
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Kulturelle Hybridisierung und Wirtschaftstransformation in China
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2009
overview of recent economic approaches to culture and puts these into ananalytical framework that highlights the dynamic and … creative aspects of culture. I argue thatChina is a model case for the role of cultural hybridization in economic change …. Culture isconceived as an arrangement of non-cultural elements into a meaningful pattern. With regardto this pattern, abstract …
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Moralische Gefühle als Grundlage einer wohlstandschaffendenWettbewerbsordnung:Ein neuer Ansatz zur Erforschung von Sozialkapitalund seine Anwendung auf China
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2009
In his comprehensive critique of current economic approaches to social capital, Durlauf(2002) recommends a stronger reliance on methods of experimental economics and socialpsychology. This paper surveys different notions of social capital and submits an alternativeconceptual approach based on...
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Neuroeconomics, Naturalism and Language
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2008
Neuroeconomics stays in the center of the ongoing naturalistic turn in economics. It portraysthe individual as a complex system of decision making mechanisms and modules. This resultsinto a conceptual tension with the standard economic notion of the unity of the actor that is asystemic property...
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Does Culture InfluenceAsset Managers’ Views and Behavior?
Beckmann, Daniela; Menkhoff, Lukas; Sutō, Megumi - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2007
This research enters new ground by presenting comparative survey evidence on assetmanagers' views and behavior in the United States, Germany, Japan and Thailand.Relying on Hofstede's four cultural dimensions, we find that cultural differencesare most helpful in understanding country differences...
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In what sense do firms evolve?
Nooteboom, Bart - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008
argue that it does, to some but also limited extent.Evolutionary theories of economies, and of culture, have acquired …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867791
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Kulturelle Unterschiede im Beschwerdeverhalten – Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschschweiz und Romandie
Müller, Yvonne; Zaugg, Alexandra Daniela; Dubois, Julien; … - Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik <Bern> - 2007
Die Arbeit geht von der Hypothese aus, dass sich Konsumenten aus der Romandie aktiver beschweren, als dies Deutschschweizer tun. Diese Annahme basierte auf dem kulturwissenschaftlichen Ansatz von Hofstede. Die empirische Untersuchung in der Deutsch- sowie in der Französischen Schweiz hat jedoch...
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