Encouraging the growth of firms is a priority for many governments, so identifying the factors that keep firms small is extremely important for public policy. One of these factors might be the poor quality of institutions. In this paper, I test whether institutions such as corruption, law and...

The paper explores the level of CSR development in Poland and focuses on the roles of stakeholders actively involved in fostering the CSR concept in the country. The stakeholders include: (1) regulators (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, the Warsaw Stock Exchange and Polish Accounting...

Social and environmental aspects are increasingly included in the different types of reports prepared by the Romanian companies. Our research question is which are the forces that drive the institutionalization of the CSR reporting in Romania. We consider the stakeholders as the primary...

The paper examines the effect of specific institutional factors on entrepreneurial activity. In the course of the examination, we encounter various viewpoints regarding entrepreneurship and different needs of national politics. The research objective is to determine whether institutional factors...