Socio-cognitive traits and entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic institutions

CJ Boudreaux, BN Nikolaev, P Klein - Journal of Business Venturing, 2019 - Elsevier
We examine how country-level institutional context moderates the relationship between
three socio-cognitive traits—entrepreneurial self-efficacy, alertness to new business …

Institutions and life satisfaction

N Berggren, C Bjørnskov - Handbook of labor, human resources and …, 2020 - Springer
The degree to which people are satisfied with their lives is affected by many factors. This
chapter surveys studies that document the influence of one such factor–formal institutions …

Cross‐country determinants of early‐stage necessity and opportunity‐motivated entrepreneurship: accounting for model uncertainty

BN Nikolaev, CJ Boudreaux… - Journal of Small Business …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Model uncertainty is one of the most pervasive challenges in the social sciences. Cross‐
country studies in entrepreneurship have largely ignored this issue. In this paper, we …

Economic freedom and inequality: A survey of the empirical literature

DL Bennett - Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Inequality is a pressing concern, acknowledged by scholars, leaders, and organizations
globally. Former US President Obama referred to rising inequality as 'the defining challenge …

Income inequality, life satisfaction inequality and trust: a cross country panel analysis

J Graafland, B Lous - Journal of happiness studies, 2019 - Springer
Literature has argued that income inequality crowds out trust. However, whether income
inequality makes people less trusting depends on how they perceive income inequality …

Economic complexity and income inequality: Does country risk matter?

CC Lee, EZ Wang - Social Indicators Research, 2021 - Springer
This research sets out to determine the nexus among economic complexity (ECI; which
reflects a country's productivity), income inequality, and country risk and whether country risk …

Economic freedom and corporate environmental responsibility: The role of small government and freedom from government regulation

J Graafland - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
In international scientific literature, it is argued from institutional theory that economic
freedom stimulates corporate environmental responsibility. However, economic freedom …

Historical disease prevalence, cultural values, and global innovation

DL Bennett, B Nikolaev - Entrepreneurship Theory and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The historical prevalence of infectious diseases has had an enduring effect on innovation
around the world. Building on the Parasite Stress Theory of Values, we propose a framework …

Economic freedom, income inequality and life satisfaction in OECD countries

J Graafland, B Lous - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Since Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century in 2014, scientific interest into the impact
of income inequality on society has been on the rise. However, little is known about the …

Income inequality, globalization, and country risk: A cross-country analysis

CC Lee, CC Lee, D Lien - Technological and Economic …, 2020 - journals.vilniustech.lt
Guided by the assessments of globalization in its broader sense, this paper explores the
impact of globalization in terms of a salient aspect of economic, social and political on …