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The Entrepreneurial Culture: Guiding Principles of the Self-Employed

Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self- employed rate values higher that aim...

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Islam and the Institutions of a Free Society: Many Problems, Little Hope

Voigt, Stefan - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

The rule of law, constitutional democracy, and market economy are taken as the core institutions of free societies. After arguing that shared values heavily influence institutions, it is asked whether Islamic values are conducive to those institutions. The values are ascertained via the economic...

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Weber, Work Ethic And Well-Being

Hoorn, André van; Maseland, Robbert - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2008

-economic developments. We present a test of Weber’s original thesis that addresses fundamental limitations of previous research. A novel … method that builds on happiness research is used to measure a religious work ethic in terms of the psychic costs of …

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Intergenerational mobility and interraical inequality:the return to family values

Mason, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper investigates two questions. First, what is the relative importance of the components of childhood family environment—parental values versus parental class status—for young adult economic outcomes? Second, are interracial differences in labor market outcomes fully explained by...

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International joint ventures in Russia: Cultures' influences on alliance success

Kobernyuk, Elena; Stiles, David; Ellson, Tony - In: Journal of Business Research 67 (2014) 4, pp. 471-477

This paper investigates the influence of organizational culture on the strategic success of International Joint … in-depth interviews reveal different clusters of values and practices amongst managers and, contrary to previous research …. Adopted organizational culture is also found to be dependent on the dominant IJV stake holding with culture influencing …

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Does a Protestant work ethic exist? Evidence from the well-being effect of unemployment

van Hoorn, André; Maseland, Robbert - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 1-12

Evidence on Weber's original thesis on a Protestant work ethic is ambiguous and relies on questionable measures of work attitudes. We test the relation between Protestantism and work attitudes using a novel method, operationalizing work ethic as the effect of unemployment on individuals’...

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Culture and Innovation: Approach to the Problem

Yassin, Evgeny; Lebedeva, Nadezhda - In: Foresight-Russia 3 (2009) 2, pp. 16-26

authors also analyze the results of their research related to the social-psychological basis of innovations and share some … psychological barriers when aiming at the innovative development of Russia. Note: Downloadable document is in Russian. …

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The Culture`s Elements Impact on the Multinational Companies Activity

Musetescu, Adina; Nicolau, Irina; Athu, Cristina; … - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 2, pp. 87-90

successfully to a new culture by working in a foreign country. From the multinationals companies’ point of view, they should … approach culture as a business opportunity, rather than a challenge. Therefore, they should take into consideration the rules …

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Cultural Influences on Management Ethics

Liviu, Gavrilescu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series X (2010) 2, pp. 240-245

Managerial ethics, as a branch of applied Ethics, is a relatively recent approach to the management of the organizations, as an interference of the Philosophy with Economics, due to increasing awareness of the need of connecting managers’ behavior and actions to the rules and moral values of...

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The choice of interpretation as a problem of social epistemology

Porus, Vladimir - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

Social epistemology is a set of attempts to assign a philosophical meaning to sociological studies of cognitive processes within their social context. These attempts are being made through competition of philosophical interpretations. The choice of interpretation is governed by the desire to...

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