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Living better in a better world: Guidance and counselling in an ecosystemic model of culture
Pilon, André Francisco; AF - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
-ecosystemic to an ecosystemic model of culture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490467
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Living better in a better world: Guidance and counselling in an ecosystemic model of culture
Pilon, André Francisco; AF - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
socio-cultural learning niches. Problems related to education, culture, ethics, physical, social and mental well …. Values, goals, and principles are considered in the transition from a non-ecosystemic to an ecosystemic model of culture. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490508
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Cultural constraints on the emergence of women as leaders
Toh, Soo Min; Leonardelli, Geoffrey J. - In: Journal of World Business 47 (2012) 4, pp. 604-611
, or gender roles), we argue that a culture's tightness – its strength of norms and social sanctions – can provoke a … represented among top leadership positions. Moreover, cultural tightness moderates the degree to which egalitarian practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580889
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Culture and R2
Eun, Cheol S.; Wang, Lingling; Xiao, Steven C. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 115 (2015) 2, pp. 283-303
tight (loose) and collectivistic (individualistic) countries. Culture influences stock price synchronicity by affecting … financial openness weakens the effect of domestic culture on stock price comovements. These results hold for various robustness … checks. Our study suggests that culture is an important omitted variable in the literature that investigates cross …
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Trust as the missing root of institutions, education, and development
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Bjørnskov, Christian - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2012
In the paper, we argue that trust is the missing link relating education, institutions, and economic development. We argue that increased trust both increases education and improves legal and bureaucratic institutions, which in turn spurs economic development. We substantiate this intuition with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010968984
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Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture
Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Economics Department, Williams College - 2014
This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society's history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271641
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The not so dark side of trust: does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; D'Hernoncourt, Johanna - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2008
This paper studies the relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, on a cross-section of countries, both developed and developing, and finds that it is significantly negative. That relationship is robust to controlling for a large set of economic, policy, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146706
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The not so dark side of trust: Does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; D'Hernoncourt, Johanna - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2012
This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of countries, both developed and developing. That relationship is robust to controlling for a large set of economic, policy, and institutional variables, to changing the estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321735
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Measuring Of Ethnic Homogeneity Of The Population – One New Approach
Arkadiev, Dimitar - In: Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan … 57 (2010) november, pp. 421-438
The necessity of constructing a measure of ethnic homogeneity of the population of the different countries is founded. The advantages and shortcomings of different indices used for this purpose are discussed. The indicators according to which the different ethnic communities and groups are...
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Institution Building and Change in China
Hendrischke, Hans; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
We advance a conceptual frame for explaining economic transformation in China that combines a dynamic and a comparative perspective by taking the analysis of Fiscal Federalism one step further. Using insights from the comparative business systems literature we show that devolution of power at...
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