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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307445
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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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Heterogeneidade estrutural na produção agropecuária: Uma comparação da produtividade total dos fatores no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos
Fornazier, Armando; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2013
gap, but the process of modernization of agriculture in the United States is older than Brazil, and even closing the gap …Brazilian agriculture has undergone a process of transformation in recent decades, being featured on the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330695
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Modernization and Democratization: The Explanatory Potential of New Differentiation Theoretical Approaches on the Case of South Korea
Kern, Thomas - 2006
The article deals with the social mechanism that connects modernization with democratization. Starting from a … antagonisms" inside the social subsystems than by class conflicts: The more modernization progresses, the stronger becomes the … short overview over the latest developments in the debate on modernization and democratization. In the second step, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906533
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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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Beyond performance legitimacy: Procedural legitimacy and discontent in China
Birney, Mayling - 2017
, especially considering rising modernization forces and economic slowdown. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291432