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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 …. 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

The article rises the question about cultural (values, mentality) impact on attitudes to innovation. Data on innovation activity in Russia is given in comparison with information about other countries and results of cross-cultural researches of interrelationships between cultural values...

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Cultural Barriers to Serbia Joining the European Union

Przulj, Zivka; Vukelic, Gordana - In: Serbia and the European Union: Economic Lessons from …

The question of culture and its influence on behaviour and decision making is unavoidable in the modern world … decade confirm the importance and help us understand barriers to the process of integration. National culture is an important … determinant of behaviour, decision making and problem solving faced by individuals in the society. It especially affects …

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Cultural Influences on Management Ethics

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

’ behavior and actions to the rules and moral values of society. These values differ in the human communities within society, the …

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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 …

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Values and Attitudes towards Innovation among Canadian, Chinese and Russian Students

Lebedeva, Nadezhda; Schmidt, Peter - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

hypothesized, across the full set of participants, higher priority given to Opennes to change values (self-direction, stimulation … & Gump, 2007). There were, however, culture-specific variations in some of these associations, which may be explained by …

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Values of Russians: the Dynamics and Relations towards Economic Attitudes

Lebedeva, Nadezhda; Tatarko, Alexander - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

) in Russia. Thus, our study showed that values remain fairly stable within a single culture; however, they are different …

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Respect, responsibility, and development

Breuer, Janice Boucher; McDermott, John - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 36-47

We develop a theory that explains how two core values – Respect for others and Responsibility – affect productivity, the accumulation of capital, and output per worker. Using data from the World Values Survey, we empirically test the model using a panel dataset that includes 82 countries...

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