Abstract The Protestant Reformation is one of the defining events of the last millennium.
Nearly 500 years after the Reformation, its causes and consequences have seen a renewed …

A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress, from one of the world's
preeminent thinkers.“Unparalleled in its scope and ambition… All readers will learn …

This article explores religion and religiosity in the field of entrepreneurship. Based on an
original, international dataset of 740 students, we examine the impact of individual religious …

In the last 15 years, the literature on international economics and international business has
been paying increasing attention to informal institutions and to how they affect a variety of …

We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over
time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of …

We investigate the effect of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the decision to become an
entrepreneur in former Holy Roman Empire regions. Our research design exploits religious …

This paper employs data from the World Values Survey (1995–2020) and the European
Values Study (1999–2020) to test three hypotheses on attitudinal differences between …

We provide one of the first investigations of the cultural and value dimensions through which
Protestantism affects entrepreneurship by focusing on the historically predetermined …

We provide a large scale within-country analysis of the effect of language future time
reference (FTR) on self-employment using individual-level data from Switzerland, a country …

Secularization processes alongside supposed tensions between science and religion may
partly explain the slow development of literature on the relationship between religion and …