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The regulated firm: Effects of regulation on competence development and sustainable competitive advantage

Frohwein, Torsten - 2015

Sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) is a central tenet in strategic management theory. The effect of regulation on sustaining competitive advantages is widely neglected in literature. The impact on competence development and SCA of the firm can be significant, if regulatory requirements and...

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The regulated firm : effects of regulation on competence development and sustainable competitive advantage

Frohwein, Torsten - 2015

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Which is the More Predictable Gender? Public Good Contribution and Personality

Perugini, Marco; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2005

the context in which decisions are made. …

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Does community context have important bearings on the divorce rate? A fixed-effects study of twenty Norwegian first-marriage cohorts

Lyngstad, Torkild H. - 2006

Decisions to divorce could be affected by a number of characteristics of the local community. Community characteristics may be barriers to divorce (e.g. strong social control) or increase the attractiveness of divorcing (e.g. through access to a good remarriage market), but our knowledge of such...

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The German Mittelstand: Antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model?

Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike - 2019

Whilst internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to emulate it, the current debate in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and non-innovative - in short: as a hindrance to Germany's...

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The role of context in the globalization of Chinese firms

Child, John; Marinova, Svetla Trifonova - 2013

This paper argues that it is crucial to take account of both home and host country contexts in order adequately to understand their implications for Chinese enterprises investing into foreign countries. This calls for an analysis that is sensitive to both home and host country contexts, and that...

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Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment

Abbink, Klaus; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2002

This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of … a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract wording. Though the underlying context is heavily loaded with …

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Great expectations: The determinants of female university enrolment in Europe

Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara - 2011

on the role played by the context where young women take their education decision. We first develop a stylized two … 17-21 age group drawn from EU-Silc, available for the years 2004-2008. From the same survey we construct context … changes in the surrounding context. We find that the share of working women with children below 5 and the share of women with …

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Can (a football) community tackle climate change? A case study analysis of Ipswich Town Football Club's campaign to encourage pro-environmental behavioural change amongst its fans

Baldwin, Richard - 2010

Academics and policymakers claim that community-based organisations may be able to encourage individuals to adopt pro-environmental behavioural changes; however at present there is limited research-based evidence to support this assertion. This paper sets out to provide a contribution to the...

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Towards a phronetic approach to pro-environmental behaviour: Seeking context, interaction and power in behaviour change processes

Hargreaves, Tom - 2010

This paper outlines and attempts to develop an original and innovative approach to research on pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) by, for the first time, applying Flyvbjerg´s (2001) call for the development of phronetic social science to this burgeoning empirical subject. Based on this novel...

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