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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of institutions in emerging markets by sketching out the … institutions, institutional pressures by local governments, as well as institutional change and transitions. Practical implications …’ social performance, the relevance and importance of social institutions in these markets, as well as the need for social …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to conceptualize time as an important dimension of institutions and, more … specifically, to develop the analysis of institutions, time, and temporal misfits. The paper explores these matters in the context … emphasized the critical aspects of studying institutions and time; but to date, no comprehensive efforts have been made to …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse vertical integration in the rail sector using a combination of transaction cost economics (TCE), the resource-based view (RBV) and the relational view, through which rail wagons are viewed as “relationship specific assets”....
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Purpose This paper aims to find out how the legal system interacts with other institutions in attracting Foreign Direct … regression. Findings The authors find that the source of a country’s legal system deters FDI inflow as institutions alone cannot … institutions alone cannot project the continent to attract the needed FDI. Originality/value Empiricists have devoted considerable …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the role of institutions on the remittances–output growth … pronounced in the presence of well-functioning institutions. Finally, the interaction of remittances with our six institutional … quality measures showed that growth volatility reduced considerably with better institutions. Practical implications – In …
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Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the impact of firms' technological capability and other firm and environmental characteristics on the growth of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in six transition countries at different stages of transition. It compares three advanced Central...
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Purpose – In this paper, an institutional perspective is used to examine the different kinds of pressures on entrepreneurs manifest in a conflict environment. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how they respond to the conflict and establish legitimacy for their entrepreneurship in the...
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institutions affect the founder-CEO’s decision to delegate authority to a professional CEO?; and what are the main barriers to …
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Purpose To fully understand the concept of social entrepreneurship (SE), contextual factors need to be accounted as the influence of the institutional environment on individual behaviour has received little attention in the literature. By heeding the research call for quantitative work in this...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between corruption and productive entrepreneurship in general and whether it depends on countries’ specific characteristics in particular. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a unique data set of entrepreneurial...
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