This paper presents a new 29-item measurement instrument designed to assess the impact of habits and behaviour of business founders on organizational routines. Adopting an evolutionary approach, habits and routines are conceived as social replicators with the former impacting the latter. The...

“Diaspora entrepreneurs are people with a foot in two countries but by definition they live outside of the country of their origin, at least part of the time” (Winkel, 2010). They exist and their numbers are on the rise.The contemporary human landscape is dramatically changing. As diaspora...

The paper highlights the relationship between economic growth and entrepreneurship, while appreciating the difference between necessity entrepreneurship and opportunity entrepreneurship, based on the available literature, and asserts that creation, survival and success of new ventures is an area...

Douglas MacArthur's role in the making of the modern Japanese Constitution appears to be a special case in history where a single individual exercised a great deal of authority in shaping the institutions of a nation. This paper examines the extent to which MacArthur's discretion was constrained...