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The authors have studied the effects of global economic development on individuals and cultures for the last three decades and have concluded that the most strategic and effective way of building a more positive future is through economic localisation. Fundamentally, localisation is about...
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This article examines the type of economic analyses of capitalism presented by leading exponents of the neoclassical … that all except the institutionalist school are largely insensitive to different types of structure within capitalism and … are blind to the cultures and institutions which characterize different kinds of capitalism. This conclusion is reached by …
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Guanxi, a type of particularistic trust observed in Confucian societies has mostly been viewed as a static phenomenon. It is not clear how the role of guanxi changes over time during institutional transitions. This field study of twenty one small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in two...
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Despite evidence of a positive relationship between informationtechnology (IT) investments and firm performance, results still varyacross firms and performance measures. We explore two organizationalexplanations for this variation: differences in firms’ ITinvestment allocations and their IT...
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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...
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Since the 1990s, the effective global labor supply has increased strongly, in particular due to the integration of China and India into the global markets. This rise has also deteriorated the situation of low-skilled workers in advanced economies. This development raises important challenges for...
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U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework … reality of labour market rationing and itsdistributional implications both in the U.S. and Germany. … U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework …
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, including Germany, in the last decade of the twentieth century, has also led to an increase in the immigrant entrepreneurship …. More precisely, the self-employment structure of immigrants to Germany changed tremendously since the 1970s. For instance …, this dissertation investigates the determinants of successful immigrant entrepreneurship for whole Germany as well as for …
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Deutschland hat eine weit zurückreichende Tradition als Einwanderungsland. Im internationalenVergleich gehört die … Bundesrepublik Deutschland mittlerweile zu den größten Einwanderungsländern.Deutschland betreibt jedoch … Deutschland von der Einwanderungs- und Integrationspolitik des größtenklassischen Einwanderungslandes, der USA, etwas lernen …
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