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Natural disasters and social entrepreneurship: An attention-based view
Drawing on the attention based view, this study explores the joint effects of natural disaster intensity at the country level with personal attributes in terms of gender, human capital, and fear of failure on the likelihood to enter social entrepreneurship.
Gender Diversity in Ownership and Firm Innovativeness in Emerging Markets. The Mediating Roles of R&D Investments and External Capital
Despite recent evidence linking gender diversity in the firm with firm innovativeness, we know little about the underlying mechanisms.
Natural Disasters, Entrepreneurship Activity, and the Moderating Role of Country Governance
The purpose of this paper is to investigate if a country quality of governance moderates the effect of natural disasters on startup activity within that country.
An Analysis of an Alternative Pythagorean Expected Win Percentage Model: Applications Using Major League Baseball Team Quality Simulations
We estimate expected win percentage using the traditional Pythagorean model, as well as the difference-form CSF model that is used in game theory and public choice economics.
Institutional Quality and the Wealth of Autocrats
While autocrats may use government institutions to increase their wealth, autocrats in countries with low-quality institutions tend to be wealthy when they assume power, because wealthy individuals have the incentive to use their wealth to acquire political power to protect themselves from a potentially predatory government.
Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Following Natural Disasters
The findings from our panel of 85 countries from 2006 to 2016 indicate that natural disasters are negatively associated with entrepreneurship activity, but both foreign aid and economic freedom attenuate this effect.
Social capital and small business productivity: The mediating roles of financing and customer relationships
How does an entrepreneur's social capital improve small informal business productivity?
