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The study of entrepreneurship often focuses on the activities of the entrepreneur. While entrepreneurship is undertaken … discussing the institutional factors that encourage entrepreneurship, the ways in which economic models depict the economy are … discussed, pointing toward the different policy conclusions regarding entrepreneurship that emanate from different assumptions …
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Community-based entrepreneurship is considered to be an important instrument for the realization of potential among … community-based entrepreneurship in a marginal community (Muslim). Many self-employed Muslim workers and small businesses in … values, shared resources, linkages, and mutual trust work for the community, nurtured through close personal relations for …
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The following essay has three parts. The first is a story about fluctuations in the balance of the relationship between impersonal and personal principles of social organization. This draws heavily on Max Weber’s interpretation of western history. The second part reviews the concept of an...
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Abstract EU power market design has been focused on facilitating trading between countries and for this has defined interfaces for market participants and TSOs between countries. The operation of power systems and markets within countries was not the focus of these developments. This may have...
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focuses on the institutional aspects of the research project on on-farm conservation of crop genetic resources in three …
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The current debate on decentralisation offers a partial and polarised view on the sharing of power to manage water. Drawing New Institutionalism as applied in the social and ecological sciences, the paper argues that decentralisation represents a complex adaptive process, wherein agents draw...
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We present an analytical approach to institutional analysis that draws inspiration from control process engineering in the physical sciences. We characterize smart institutions as having three foundational features. First, smart institutions are context sensitive and expressly allow for a...
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To explain the shadow economy in the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, this paper evaluates the relationship between the shadow economy and tax morale. Viewing tax morale as a measure of the symmetry between the codified laws and regulations of formal institutions (state morality)...
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The main aim of the article is to assess the functioning and outcomes of tripartite structures of cooperation consisting of trade union federations, employers' organizations and the state in Germany on the background of the evolution of the welfare state. In the historical description, which was...
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The purpose of this paper is to present the views of various schools of economic thought on the sources of the institutional order of economies. The premises of the theories of constituted and spontaneous economic orders are taken as the criteria on the basis of which the sources of an...
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