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Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting the strong adhesion of religious minorities to their...
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attitudes: strong beliefs and feelings towards religion lead to a more positive attitude towards entrepreneurship – but it does …
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Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, this paper studies the association between local religious diversity and individual entrepreneurial behavior in 29 transition countries. We find that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business....
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activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and economic development has attracted recent attention …. A positive association may indicate that religion raises the social acceptability of entrepreneurial activity, by … national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global …
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While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision … paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …
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“There are those who say that Religion and entrepreneurship do not mix. With this book, Fiet shatters this myth. For … many entrepreneurs, their faith has been a central influence in shaping their worldviews. This book provides an excellent … understanding of religion to a specific application of the different doctrines within and between different religions. This book …
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Building on the ‘entrepreneuring as emancipation' perspective, I explore the emancipatory potential of social entrepreneurship as a means to disengage individuals enthralled to ideology and trapped by their own past behavior. I studied two former religious-based terrorists from Indonesia, and...
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more religious countries. These results are not specific to any primary religion. Furthermore, we show that the negative …
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